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Amazing tale of a desperate WWII pilot’s encounter with a German flying ace
By Maureen Callahan
December 9, 2012 | 5:00am
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. Instead of firing, Stigler gave a salute. (
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On Dec. 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. They were returning from their first mission as a unit, the successful bombing of a German munitions factory. Of his crew members, one was dead and six wounded, and 2nd Lt. Brown was alone in his cockpit, the three unharmed men
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