Stigler-Brown Incident. This is an animation. Sans dialogue, none needed really. I knew a couple of old soldiers, one German, one American. They met at a nursing home in Navasota, that guy did not speak a lick of English. They were on opposite sides of a couple of rivers at various times in the forties. Happened to be the only one there could sprechen his lingo, they joked about lucky neither was a good shot.
Quote:
"If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute, I will shoot you myself."
Those were the words that came to Franz Stigler's mind when he saw the badly damaged B-17 that was somehow still flying. To him, that plane limping back to England with its wounded crew was the same as a parachute. This story was kept classified for the remainder of the war and only came to light when the two pilots managed to find each other again in 1990.
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