02484cam a2200469 i 4500 913374103 TxAuBib 20230802120000.0 120426t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012015546 9780425252864 0425252868 (OCoLC)791682283 TxAuBib rda Makos, Adam. A higher call [HARDCOVER] : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II / Adam Makos with Larry Alexander. 1st edition. New York : Berkley Caliber, 2013. ©2012. viii, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliography. A stranger in my own land -- Follow the eagles -- A feather in the wind -- Fire free -- The desert amusement park -- The stars of Africa -- The homecoming -- Welcome to Olympus -- The unseen hand -- The Berlin bear -- The farm boy -- The quiet ones -- The lives of nine -- The boxer -- A higher call -- The third pilot -- Pride -- Stick close to me -- The downfall -- The flying sanatorium -- We are the air force -- The squadron of experts -- The last of the German fighter pilots -- Where bombs had fallen -- Was it worth it? This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. 20230802. BPL: Stillwater Realty Fund. Brown, Charlie, 1922-2008. Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, German. Bombing, Aerial Germany History 20th century. Bomber pilots United States Biography. Fighter pilots Germany Biography. Biographies. Alexander, Larry, 1951- TXSTC