![]() ![]() Again, the lone German was still there, and now it was worse. He looked, again, out the co-pilot’s window. He did that thing you see people do in movies: He closed his eyes and shook his head no. None of that was as shocking as the German pilot now suddenly to his right.īrown thought he was hallucinating. Brown’s B-17 had been attacked by 15 German planes and left for dead, and Brown himself had been knocked out in the assault, regaining consciousness in just enough time to pull the plane out of a near-fatal nose dive. Brown was alone in his cockpit, the three unharmed men tending to the others. ![]() Of his crew members, one was dead and six wounded, and 2nd Lt. They were returning from their first mission as a unit, the successful bombing of a German munitions factory. 20, 1943, a young American bomber pilot named Charlie Brown found himself somewhere over Germany, struggling to keep his plane aloft with just one of its four engines still working. ![]() Instead of firing, Stigler gave a salute. HONOR IN WARTIME: American WWII pilot Charlie Brown (left) was struggling to keep his damaged bomber airborne in the skies over Germany in 1943 when Luftwaffe ace Hanz Stigler (right) flew alongside. ![]()
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