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08-11-2008, 02:48 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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| B-17 saved by Luftwaffe pilot Just stumbled across this, thought you guys might like this interesting story snopes.com: Charlie Brown Don't know if this has already been posted because its pretty amazing, if it has, sorry |
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08-11-2008, 02:58 PM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Quite the story. Just proves that some people did indeed have a heart. Charles
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08-11-2008, 04:26 PM
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__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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08-11-2008, 04:30 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr |
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08-11-2008, 04:39 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| few pics... that gentleman with glasses is Mr. Brown and the other one is Herr Stiegler. On the pic bellow with 2 young guys is Herr Stiegler.
__________________  Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. Last edited by seesul; 08-11-2008 at 04:41 PM. |
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08-11-2008, 04:47 PM
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__________________  "A good fighter pilot, like a good boxer, should have a knockout punch..... You will find one attack you prefer to all others. Work on it till you can do it to perfection... then use it whenever possible." - Captain Reade Tilley, USAAF 7 Victories, WW-II - |
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08-11-2008, 09:45 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| There are a couple threads on this I think in the Stories section. Great story.
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08-11-2008, 10:10 PM
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08-11-2008, 10:19 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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08-11-2008, 10:26 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado, USA
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| I have heard of this story. Pretty amazing. to German Pilots.
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08-12-2008, 03:00 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: oregon
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| here is a print I had signed by both nearly 15 years ago - sorry about the size..looking for my 'de sizer' Last edited by drgondog; 08-12-2008 at 03:02 PM. |
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08-12-2008, 03:08 PM
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| the old Sage  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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| and believe it or not the story is not so exceptional, there are at least 2-3 others besides the night fighters pulling back and not whailing on RAF heavies that were under duress. I cannot say though as fact whether or not the crews from both sides ever met except for one special case and that was Herr Peter S. who met the RAF crew that he shot down on his trip to England some years ago. Peter told me it was quite a reunion
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08-13-2008, 03:16 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| Thanks for posting this pic drgondog!
__________________ Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. |
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08-13-2008, 09:28 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Thanks for sharing fellas...there's still hope for human kind after all!
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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08-13-2008, 12:31 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Serbia
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| Who says that chivalry and gallantry are dead? Yesterday I saw a video on a Youtube where Croatian soldiers rescue a wounded Serbian soldier from the forest. During Yugoslav civil war. Those were true soldiers not some hired guns whose mission was to kill everyone in their sights. I salute to both Brown and Franz. |
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