A higher call book7/8/2023 Read this inspiring book and see what happens when these two pilots meet some forty years later. You fight by rules to keep your humanity.” Perhaps he remembered his commanding officer who once told him: “You follow the rules of war for you– not your enemy. Stigler, who could trace his family’s ancestry to knights in the 16th century lived by a code. People in Germany had been killed for far less. In doing so, the German risked a firing squad for helping the enemy escape. Seeing the heavy damage to the American plane, the German inexplicably decided not to destroy the enemy plane, but to escort him safely over Germany. Out of the blue a German fighter plane appeared along side of his aircraft. In December of 1943, Brown was piloting his badly damaged bomber over Germany. This is a dual biography of two World War II fighter pilots an American, Charlie Brown and his counterpart, German, Franz Stigler. A Higher Call :An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II
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