A German Pilot Stopped Fighting to Save a Damaged American B-17

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During the five grim years of World War 2, all of the countries involved created an effective propaganda system that portrayed enemy soldiers as monsters who deserved nothing more than death.

British, American, German, Russian, and Japanese army departments were tasked with creating a false reality where stereotypes, racism, and discrimination were used to humiliate the enemy and increase the hatred between adversaries.

However, the reality of war was often different.

On the Western Front, enemies were mostly treated with respect, according to old laws of war. Although it may seem unlikely, acts of honor and soldier camaraderie depicting the ancient Warrior Ethos were no strange thing to the Second World War soldiers.

Especially among air force pilots, mutual respect and acts of honor shared by aviators resembled the medieval acts of chivalry.

A young 21-year-old USAF pilot, Charlie Brown, experienced first-hand the virtuous conduct exhibited by a Luftwaffe pilot during a bombing raid when his B-17 bomber was severely damaged and about to go down.

After the German pilot, Franz Stigler, realized the American crew was defenseless, he took the dangerous decision of escorting the aircraft to safety across German-controlled territory.

It was an almost unbelievable tale of two pilots that met each other as enemies in the skies of WW2, survived, and died as best friends and real kamaraden.

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