Merry Christmas!
Month: December 2012
Bet You Didn’t Know: Christmas
A Silent Night {Christmas 1915} – Jerry Lynch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0ysO58KXE
It could happen again: World War I Christmas Truce
The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, 20 December, 1943
The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on the 20 December, 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, Charles ‘Charlie’ Brown’s B-17 Flying Fortress (named “Ye Olde Pub”) was severely damaged by German fighters. Luftwaffe pilot and ace Franz Stigler had an opportunity to shoot down the crippled bomber, but instead, for humanitarian reasons, decided to allow the crew to fly back to their airfield in England. wikipedia.org
Bf 109 pilot Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown’s first meeting:
Robert Heaton Rhodes of New Zealand
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Harold Winston Rhodes of New Zealand
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Brigadier General James M. Rhodes Jr.
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Lieutenant General George Rhodes
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John E. Rhodes, Lieutenant General USMC
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