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Originally Posted by Catfish
Wasn't "A higher call" about Stigler and Brown? Who was the german pilot who crashed his plane into the sea?  |
The book is mostly about Stigler and Brown but "mostly mostly" about Stigler. It is also about the war in general, and other individuals, like people Stigler came across. His fellow pilots, his officers, his family. As for the name, I would need to dig up the book, and look it up.
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Even more OT: Regarding Stigler and the B17, I read in Deighton's "Fighters" that it happened several times, that some german pilots accompanied damaged british fighters home, which, as they said, "would never have been possible in Russia" (all WW2).
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I'm not too surprised really. The story we were told through the media, through hollywood movies, through veterans who were somewhere else entirely, those stories you can find in wartime propaganda. This is true for all sides involved. The real story of the individuals who fought is another story entirely. The German and British pilots had the same job, they knew what the other guy was going through.