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Former USAAF pilot Charles "Charlie" Brown meeting former Luftwaffe ace Franz Stigler in person 47 years after Stigler had spared and escorted Brown's badly-damaged B-17 bomber out of German territory rather than shoot it down. (June 21st, 1990)

Former USAAF pilot Charles "Charlie" Brown meeting former Luftwaffe ace Franz Stigler in person 47 years after Stigler had spared and escorted Brown's badly-damaged B-17 bomber out of German territory rather than shoot it down. (June 21st, 1990)

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