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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident
Aerial Incident of WW2
The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt.
Charles "Charlie" Brown's B-17F Flying FortressYe Olde Pub of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was severely damaged by German fighters.
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Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler had the opportunity to shoot down the crippled bomber but did not do so, and instead escorted it over and past German-occupied territory so as to protect it. After an extensive search by Brown, the two pilots met each other 50 years later and developed a friendship that lasted until Stigler's death in March 2008.
Brown died only a few months later, in November of the same year.[1][2]
Pilots
Charles Lester Brown (24 October 1922 – 24 November 2008)[2][3] was a B-17 pilot with the 527th Bombardment Squadron of the 379th Bombardment Group within the USAAF's VIII Bomber Comma