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Image: B-17Bs at March Field, California, prior to attack on Pearl Harbor, with framed nose glazing of the style retained through the B-17E model
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II, by Adam Makos; with Robertson Dean as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. is publisher. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is the twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is the German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger. https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/B00BH59WVK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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2nd Lt Charles L. “Charlie” Brown (“a farm boy from Weston, West Virginia,” in his own words) was a B-17F pilot with the 379th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces’ (USAAF) 8th Air Force, stationed at RAF Kimbolton in England.
