6/25/2023 0 Comments A higher call bookSomehow the pilot, 20-year-old Lt Charlie Brown, still clung to the controls - and the last vestiges of hope. The nose cone had been blown out and a 200mph gale hurtled through the fuselage. The rear gunner’s body hung lifeless in his shattered turret, another gunner was unconscious and bleeding heavily, the rest of the ten-man crew battered, wounded and in shock. Holed all over by flak and bullets and down to a single good engine, it struggled simply to stay in the air over Germany, let alone make it the 300 miles back to England. The lone Allied bomber was a sitting duck. Incredible story: He was a real master of the skies, but Luftwaffe veteran Franz Stigler showed pity to an Allied bomber in its hour of need
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