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A Higher Call B-17 Flying Fortress Charlie Brown Franz Stigler WWII aviation history

The Hangar Aug 12, 2026

Ye Olde Pub, Franz Stigler, and the Crippled B Seventeen a German Fighter Pilot Refused to Shoot Down Two Days Before Christmas

On December 20, 1943, German ace Franz Stigler refused to shoot down a crippled B-17 and escorted it to safety instead.

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The Hangar Jun 16, 2026

Ye Olde Pub, Franz Stigler, and the enemy who refused to fire over Germany in December nineteen forty-three

The true story of Franz Stigler, the German ace who escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down in December 1943.

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