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Four times before Christmas in 1943, a terribly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or useless. It had been their first objective. Suddenly a modern, dark shape drawn through to the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a guy able to demolish the American bomber with the squeeze of a cause. What took place next would defy imagination and later be called the most extraordinary encounter between enemies in World Battle II. This is actually the true tale of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - Second Lieutenant Charlie Dark brown, a former plantation boy from West Virginia who came up to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a ex - airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid struggling with in World Battle II. A Higher Call employs both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog on the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they might light his cockpit, and packs of opponent fighters that could circle his airplane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, an accident by itself at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven weapons, looking forward to his attack. In the long run, Charlie and Franz would stare across the iced skies at each other. What took place between them, the American Eighth Air Push would later classify as " inside info ". It had been an take action that Franz could never point out without facing a firing squad. It had been the encounter that could haunt both Charlie and Franz for 40 years until, as old men, they might search for each other, a last objective that could change their lives forever.
