Oberleutnant Ludwig Franz Stigler (21 August 1915 – 22 March 2008) was a German fighter pilot and fighter ace in World War II. He is best known for his...
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The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt. Charles "Charlie" Brown's...
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Stigler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Stigler (1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety...
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Fortress named Ye Olde Pub which was involved in the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident. Born on October 24, 1922, in Weston, West Virginia as the...
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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident of 1943, which took place in the skies of Germany during the Second World War. In it, Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe...
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a native of Amberg Barbara Meier (born 1986), German fashion model Franz Stigler (1915–2008), German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace, 45 aerial victories...
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highly damaged B-17 piloted by Charlie Brown that was not shot down by Franz Stigler, as memorialized in the painting A Higher Call by John D. Shaw. 5 Grand...
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the Knight's Cross, and 56-victory ace Franz Stigler, unit technical officer and protagonist of the Brown-Stigler Incident. Forsyth 2008. Makos 2012, p...
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include A Higher Call (2012), which recounts the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, and Spearhead (2019), a detailed biography of World War II...
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3:01 2. "No Bullets Fly" The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, in which German pilot Stigler accompanied a disabled American bomber back to the...
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Lieutenant General Walter Krupinski, 27 August 1942 (gold) First Lieutenant Franz Stigler, 1 October 1944 (gold) Luftwaffe Major Günther Specht, 25 November 1943...
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(born 1964), Jamaican writer Charlie Brown of the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1922–2008), American World War II pilot Charles Brown (Royal...
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get on the tail of the Bf 109. Franz Stigler, an ace with 28 kills, flew Bf 109s against the P-38 in North Africa. Stigler said the Lightning "could turn...
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incident. The pilots in question, which included Karl-Heinz Bendert and Franz Stigler, had reported 12 RAF fighters destroyed. The JG 27 staff was at a loss...
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on the Gotha Go 145. One of his flight instructors at the time was Franz Stigler who initially thought that Barkhorn was a bad pilot but later graduated...
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Hiromichi Shinohara Stanisław Skalski Scott Speicher Johannes Steinhoff Franz Stigler Władysław Turowicz Ernst Udet Abhinandan Varthaman Manfred von Richthofen...
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in the War-Torn Skies of World War II, German Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Franz Stigler, a fighter ace with 22 victories, declined to shoot down the severely...
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tara (December 21, 2020). "This Day in History: The Charlie Brown & Franz Stigler incident". Taraross. Retrieved August 20, 2022. "Commentary - A new...
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exploding around him. According to ace fighter pilot and member of JV 44, Franz Stigler, "In a matter of seconds, Steinhoff had turned into a human torch"....
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Heinrich Sterr* Oberleutnant 130 JG 54 Knight's Cross KIA 26 November 1944 Franz Stigler 26 JG 27, JV 44 German Cross Bruno Stolle Hauptmann 35 LG 1, JG 2, JG...
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United Kingdom Royal Air Force 26.5 Emil Clade Germany Luftwaffe 26 Franz Stigler Germany Luftwaffe 26 Peter Werfft Germany Luftwaffe 26 Credited with...
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109 that came to light in the late 1980s—the German fighter pilot, Franz Stigler, held his fire to allow the damaged B-17 and its injured crew to return...
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12. Staffel of JG 27. Command had been transferred from Oberleutnant Franz Stigler who took command of 8. Staffel of JG 27. On 1 August 1944, Reinert was...
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Oberleutnant Ferdinand Vögl, the commander of 4. Staffel, Oberfeldwebel Franz Stigler, Oberfeldwebel Erwin Sawallisch and Bendert. At the time, most of the...
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III. Gruppe of JG 27 was then temporarily transferred to Oberleutnant Franz Stigler. Command of JG 76 was transferred from Major Anton Hackl on 7 October...
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designations see Organisation of the Luftwaffe during World War II Quote from Franz Stigler The "m.H." refers to an Ilyushin Il-2 with rear gunner (mit Heckschütze)...
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Friedman's essay written by 25 prominent people. In November 2020, the Stigler Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business published...
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Hungary. His mother was also Hungarian-Jewish.[better source needed] George Stigler, (Economics 1982), US-born, hungarian[citation needed] mother (Erzsébet...
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Duquesne Spy Ring (section Franz Joseph Stigler)
she found employment at a luxury resort near Strasbourg. In 1931, Franz Joseph Stigler, left Germany for the United States, where he became a citizen in...
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Michelle Phillips as Raven James Keane (credited as James Kean) as Lem Barry Stigler as Boxer Mary Mara as Alice Kerchief/Geisha John Hostetter as Jake Vince...
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