Posted on 12/17/2020 5:07:53 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Bob, Jimmy, Robert, Ed, Pop and many others
Yeah, aside from that whole waging war against everybody..twice...and the Holocaust, they were pretty well behaved during the 20th Century. Only came in third on the total body count. Guess they didn't try hard enough.
Adam Makos was the author. His other books are even better.
My folks, from great grandparents aunts and uncles onward, instilled in each of us a sense of honor and right and wrong. In this instance, the German pilot displayed an amount of honor. You don't kill for no reason. The bomber crew was, essentially, defenseless.
World War 1 chivalry amongst airmen. Noble. Honorable. Decent. Human.
Great story. Though the picture of the Stuka is a bit puzzling since we’re talking about a 109 and a B-17.
The point went a mile over your pointy head.
I think we bought it as part of a DVD 4-pack of Hallmark Christmas movies.
Bookmark.
That caught me at first, too.
I watch it every Christmas
A Higher Call by Adam Makos
“Great men have Honor and Respect even to enemies.”
Both were honorable warriors on opposite sides.
Odd story from an RAF friend of mine from the sixties. There was an Island in the Indian Ocean where both RAF and USSR had refueling rights. It was a neutral nation, they just wanted to sell aviation fuel and whiskey at great costs and it is rumored ladies of the night also at great cost.
He was in a bar with his guys and Russians also were there. He said they were just like us. Though if ordered would do their best to kill you in war as would his guys.
I think the Island was the Mauritius Island.
There is honor and respect amongst warriors. Something most people do not know or have.
You are a pretentious prick aren't you. That was called humor a$$ hat.
“World War 1 chivalry amongst airmen. Noble. Honorable. Decent. Human.”
Herman Goring, head of the Luftwaffe, had been a WW1 fighter pilot and had flown with Manfred von Richthofen, the famous Red Baron.
Although he could be horrible in his treatment of civilians, as in the Ukraine, he was much more honorable with captured allied fliers.
As a result the Stalag Luft camps operated by the Luftwaffe gave prisoners better rations and greatly insured a prisoners chance of surviving the war.
One such prisoner was RAF Captain Douglas Badar. Badar had lost both legs in a training accident in 1931. Getting tin prosthetics made he successfully petitioned for reinstatement in the RAF in 1939 and returned to active duty. He claimed his first kill over Dunkirk as the British army was being evacuated.
Bader was shot down over France in 1941. In the process of baling out and trying to evade capture one or both of Baders prosthetics was damaged. When he arrived at the Luftwaffe prison camp he could barely wobble around.
The camp commander received permission from Goring to make arrangements for replacement legs for Nader.
The RAF and Luftwaffe made arrangements for a replacement leg to be dropped at a Luftwaffe airfield in France.
If the Germans had known Bader they wouldn’t have bothered as Bader took his duty to escape very seriously. So seriously that he was sent to Colditz Castle the place the most incorrigible prisoners ended up.
If you think that was humor, you do have a little pointy head.
Yes I recall that. We were at Fredericksburg last year.
I’m biased too. Most of my ancestry is German.
As is most of the non-English American population. Not appreciated is how heavily German we are in America. #1 immigration group since the beginning.
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