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:

Like a Phoenix out of the flames

Back in 2005, I had a Genealogy quote generator on this website. I removed it for a couple of different reasons. Now, I thought I’d bring it back. It’s at the top of the any of the pages, and each day, it will usually have a different quote.

~Carl

Presidential Ham

In remembrance of upcoming President Day, this next web site is a tongue-in-cheek representation of portraits depicting US presidents past and present with their hams, (you heard right, hams).
Abraham Lincoln

Here is the link