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by Adam Makos
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Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber?s tail ? a Messerschmitt 109 fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day?the American ? 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 ? and the German ? Oberleutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. 'A Higher Call' follows both Charlie and Franz?s harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the
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