Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot, spared American bomber pilot Charles Brown during World War II, illustrating how ...

Five days before Christmas in 1943, over the skies of Germany, Charlie Brown, a 20-year-old farm boy from West Virginia, encountered Franz Stigler, a 29-year-old German flying ace. Brown, the pilot of ...

I once read about Charles Brown, a World War II pilot on his first mission, just before Christmas 1943. His B-17 had been shot to pieces, half his crew was wounded or dead, and he was flying alone ...

It’s hardly a coincidence that this tale surfaces just before Christmas. It’s about a new book set in the European skies in 1943. Military historian Adam Makos, editor of Valor magazine, has written A ...

Combat was raging in the skies over Germany. It was World War II, a few days before Christmas 1943. An American B-17 bomber, heavily damaged by enemy fire while in a raid on Bremen, was limping back ...

EXCLUSIVE: Neophyte screenwriter John Marckesano has been tapped to adapt true story WWII tale A Higher Call for Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun, Shakespeare In Love) and Solipsist Films.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Since Broomfield resident Adam Makos was 15 ...

The habit of lumping together groups of people — often furriners, but not always — into an undifferentiated mass is one of the Naval Diplomat’s pet peeves. There is no “the Chinese,” “the Japanese,” ...