This story is about the skies over Germany on a cold 20th of December 1943, about a German Ace pilot, an American bomber commander, and an act of mercy that turned two ennemies into brothers...
If you want to know more about this story, you can read the book:
A Higher Call by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander
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Music:
Hot October by Wood Spider
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
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and
Convergence, Break Through and Horses by The Pictures of the Floating World
From Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
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and
Smoldering, Summer Days, Universe in Hands and November by Kai Engel
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
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and
The Bridge by David Hilowitz
From Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial- 4.0 United States
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Sounds:
B17.wav by Relwin
From Free Sounds
Copyright CC BY 4.0 DEED
Attribution 4.0 International
Messerschmitt Bf 109 Startup and Taxiing by FlighttoflyPhoto
From Free Sounds
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Spitfires and Bf-109 Flyby by FlighttoflyPhoto
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EkmyoG83Q
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/20/1264068/-70-years-ago-today-two-honorable-men-met
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stigler
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/valor-when-an-enemy-was-a-friend/
https://chivalrytoday.com/chivalry-air/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident
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