“If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute, I will shoot you myself.”
Those were the words that came to Franz Stigler"s mind when he saw the badly damaged B-17 that was somehow still flying. To him, that plane limping back to England with its wounded crew was the same as a parachute. This story was kept classified for the remainder of the war and only came to light when the two pilots managed to find each other again in 1990.
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"If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute, I will shoot you myself."
Those were the words that came to Franz Stigler"s mind when he saw the badly damaged B-17 that was somehow still flying. To him, that plane limping back to England with its wounded crew was the same as a parachute. This story was kept classified for the remainder of the war and only came to light when the two pilots managed to find each other again in 1990.