Great video, only caveat is that, according to Charlie Brown, after they crossed the Atlantic Wall, unsure of Stigler's intentions, he had the waist gunner point the .50 at Stigler but not fire, to warn him off. Stigler (and Brown) likely would have both been shot down upon crossing back into England. Allied AA gunners were not as well-trained as German gunners were.
@@erichvondonitz5325 I mean, technically both Steel commanders and bismark are still based on real events, though most bonus and some like Kingdom Come are not
This is one of the 3 favorite stories of WW2. The other was when about an American unit who was ambushed and got lost on the snowy woods on Christmas Eve and a German woman and her child welcomed them in, another German rifle unit later found their way to the house. German woman also invited them in with the condition that their weapons are left outside and no fighting. The woman and her child, the American soldiers, and the Germans soldiers all spent the Christmas eve together with the medic of the Germans even tending to the wounded of the Americans. Another hilarious one was when a British bomber got separated from its formation due to heavy clouds that day. They found the sillouette of a formation of Fighters they believed were their escorts and joined their formation. When they reached a clearing at the edge of the massive clouds, they realized they were flying in formation with the German Lutwaffe. The pilots and the plane's gunners all stared at each other for a moment until the German flight lead pointed to the direction of Britain. Then they all went their separate ways.
Oscar Bayton sadly I don't, I just remember seeing it on an old documentary on TV a long time ago and it was the story of one of the veterans interviewed. I found the story hilarious so it stuck to me since then
It's an amazing story, but imagine how badly Hollywood would screw up and embelish the story to drag it out to feature length. It's perhaps best that Hollywood ignore this one out of respect.
@@Loopcats Hollywood did an amazing job with Midway (2019). They only changed details for cinematic reasons, really. LIke formations being closer together than they should be. Things like that.If they took the same care with this as they did with Midway, I'd gladly pay to see it.
While the Craz Stigler event was unique, there are plenty of examples in many wars of enemy pilots being merciful. It's a sort of brotherhood that transcends nationality. In the first couple weeks of WWI, it wasn't uncommon that "enemy" pilots would fly right pass eachother, waving and smiling. That changed when Corporal Louis Quénault shot a German pilot, causing the plane to crash
@@dimwitsixtytwelve actually one event did happen, during the Cold War the Soviet "Dead Hand System" dictated radiation levels and armed all the Soviet nuclear Warheads and aimed at USA but luckly it was still pre-automatic but it turns out that the radiation was false and the system was disarmed and prevented a nuclear war between USA and CCCP.
One of my favorite stories of WW2. Another is the fate of HMS Glowworm. A light destroyer that ended up facing the Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser alone. Glowworm shot until she was out of shells, then used starshells, used grapeshot, anything they could fire. Expended all her armament. Took hit after hit. The electrical system malfunctioned and the ship's siren locked on. The captain gave the order to ram Hipper, and the little destroyer sped toward the cruiser, siren screaming in defiance, smoke billowing from numerous holes blown in the side, all guns offline. The ram did little to Hipper, just like the rest of the fighting. The captain of Hipper sent a message to the British, commending Glowworm's captain and crew. The story of USS Johnston is a similar story, and just as impressive. Small ships, completely overwhelmed, fighting like a battleship to their last man.
The Glowworm's captain Lieutenant Commander Gerard B. Roope was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross by the recommendation of HIpper's Capitan Hellmut Heye sent though the Red Cross!
Every time the lines: Look to the right, then look again, See the enemy in the eyes. I physically get chills thinking of that situation. Fucking awesome song.
I mean the German pilot would've had any reason to shoot them down. One bomber pilot less could save hundreds of german civilians. Tactic bombing is different, but that one was someone dropping incendiary bombs onto civilians. My great great uncle was in one of these attacks. He was a doctor. The field hospital got bombed by the british (Hundreds of metres of fields in every direction, so no mistake) with incendiary bombs. It was so hot, his ears just melted. His entire face and head was burnt. Plot twist: The people in that field hospital were captured allied soldiers. The doctors then just went out of there and didn't make any effort to rescue the patients (would have been a waste of time honestly. Look up white phosphorus). Thats what I call karma. Much much deserved karma. Bombing civilians is a war crime and concerning the nazis it is the same as if at a bank robbery the police would shoot the hostages to make the remaining hostages more hostile towards the ones that captured them. Churchill and Eisenhower should have been sentenced to death along the other war criminals. Carried out preferably by burning them to death.
Imagine that though staring your enemy directly in the eye, one of the people you have been fighting and killing for months if not years and after all the things you both have done you are spared That must have felt surreal
There’s this phenomenon known by hunters called buck fever. Buck fever is where you draw bead on an animal but you can’t shoot it because you’ve never shot another living being before.
the reason why franz never fired was because in training his commander said killing an unarmed plane is like killing a man in a parachute and if he ever about one of his pilots killing an unarmed plane or a man in a parachute he would fly up there and kill that pilot himself.
It's because Stigler's Brother was a JU-88 bomber pilot, and was shot down over England not long before this incident. He saw the dying men through the bombers airframe, and thought of his brother. This made him unable to pull the trigger, so he escorted them to the English channel. Source: A Higher Call by Adam Makos.
@@Snappy69420 i hope not for the visuals. Cuz its a lie, the germans could only dream of fielding air squadrons like that. Realisticly they shouldve spottet like 5 planes.
@ but also there was mission that more than 300 b17 were flying and there was 500 fw190 and bf109 protecting a factory so all of those planes can be that
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler are proof that the hatred and anger bread by war are no match for the love between people. Thank you Medjay Aleksindres Merytsekhmet for sharing this wonderful and true story to inspire the rest of humanity to love and care for each other.
I believe that in war, the first casualties are honor and truth. And finding out about men who had the courage not to fire against disarmed enemies fills my heart with happiness. All these acts of kindness during those troubled times show us what it really means to be human.
War make see what you are for te better and worse ...but too many the better of worse...humain is a wolve for humain before the first primitive kill ther own species not for survive or accidentaly but by hate ..hangry...jealousy...and all our thecnology culture religion are issue of these madness ...we always do the same mistake we regret we forgot an doing same thing same felling of violence and destruction..is inside us in our dna fight our own nature is too hard for many but easy find ennemies to destroy its our heavy legacy we are all guilty and victime its our paradox or maybe a curse...
From down below one enemy’s spotted So hurry up, rearm and refuel But through the bomber's damaged air frame See wounded men scattered and burned Look to the right and then look again And see the enemy in the eye No bullets fly, spared by his mercy Escorted out, out of harm’s way Fly, fighting fair It’s the code of the air Brothers, heroes, foes Killing machine, thunder in the sky B-17, flying home Killing machine Said goodbye to the cross he deserved He risked his life two times that day To save an unknown enemy Escort to safety, out of the killzone A short salute, then departed Fly, fighting fair It's the code of the air Brothers, heroes, foes Killing machine, thunder in the sky B-17, flying home Killing machine Said goodbye to the cross he deserved Fly, fighting fair It's the code of the air Brothers, heroes, foes Killing machine, thunder in the sky B-17, flying home Killing machine Said goodbye to the cross he deserved
3:58 actually, Charlie's intention was just to get Stiger to go away, since he was still unsure of stiglers intentions, and the fact that they would soon be within allied airspace And didn't want stigler to get shot down
Really Dead Guy from what I remember the only gun that wasn’t frozen was the tail gun, but the gunner had been killed in the strafing runs that damaged the B-17
Every bomber who've shot down means 100 more civilians alive.. So I can understand if a Luftwaffe pilot would show no mercy but damn! I'm proud of Stiegler a man of honor
If you show no mercy to the enemy then you can rest assured they will do the same, also you have a chance to put doubt in your enemy as you show them you are not the monster the propaganda machine says you are. Although in this case their cause was fucking monstrous.
@@anothergermanmapper7754 I understand, and I understand they could have not just stood up and said we won't be part of this without themselves being killed. But willing or unwilling they were accomplices.
St They didn’t even know that this happened. You could use the same Logic on every army in the world. Also, you call them accomplices when many got forced to do it? The Volksturm mobilized 14 Year olds to hold the allied Advance, does that make them Accomplices? No, of course not. Yes, what the Nazi Regime did was a horrible act but you can’t say that Millions of people, with many having no choice, are accomplices.
Это песня, Пули не полетели, посвещенна немецкому летчику и американцким пилотам бомбардировщика B17 ктрх он не сбил, когда те возвращались с задания, после войны они смогли встретится если не ошибаюсь
@@user-pt5of7yk2d всё верно, лётчик Bf 109 вроде, отправил Чарли письмо из Канады, потом они встретились, но да, это мило, вроде франц когда они встретились обнял Чарли, и сказал "я люблю тебя, Чарли" вот так. Если бы не франц, Чарли бы не стало.
This is an amazing story! I live in Russia and have never heard of such a thing before. How strange to learn the story of the songs. Thanks for the new knowledge, we always respect the memory of that war. After all, in our family, my family is not an exception, there are those who died or participated in that war. I lost one great-grandfather, the second received serious injuries in captivity in the Japanese. My father's father received fragments in the heart area and lived until 1999. Sorry for my English - I use an online translator, my English is not so good. But I could not help but admire this story!
human heart has always been stronger then war :) (no pun intended towards ur grandfather, i rly mean the bigger point) dont hold urself back, let ur stories be heard, so all of us here could strengthen our hearts aswell ^^ its exactly what u r sharing that everyone of us need, to stand up and fight the fights we face every day :)
Анатолий Попов Thank you for your kind words. As an American I am well aware of the suffering and loss the Russians endured during both WW1 and WW2. I blame the Russian leadership on 25% of it (ANY man caught retreating will be shot!?) While the Cold War really sucked, Russia’s contribution can not and should not be forgotten. I hope in the future America and Russia can finally bury the hatchet and make peace with each other. Also, I am less then thrilled with Trump (even as a Republican). Someone needs to close his damn twitter account!🤦♀️ But I will be honest....Putin scared me as a kid in the 1990’s. One thing History has taught me is that enemies can become friends, allies can become enemies, and nothing is set in stone. Frankly the only that that will 100% unite all humans at this point is an Alien Invasion 👽. Bet the Aliens would leave Russia before they leave the USA though. Between the cold and hard core tactics, the Aliens would not stand a chance. 😅Like the German Army when it tried to take Moscow!
You speak good English. I am an American and always respected the Russians. You guys went through Hell in both World Wars....... I know this because, my grandfather also served the USA Marines during World War 2 and stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day June 6th 1944........ he lost his friend in action that day. Blew up right in front him....... and got shot a few times on his legs. But he kept going or he knew it would be his end. In my eyes Russia and the USA are brothers and not enemies.
Humanity works just as an economy. Hard times create strong people. Peace time creates weak people. Hard times kill weak people. Weak people demonize the strong when at peace.
My grand father was a top turret engineer on a B-17. He served his first 25 missions with the 8th AF from '42-'43. Then went back and served with the15th AF in Italy mid '44. Had a total of 37 missions. Died on Christmas when I was 6. Wish I could have talked to him about it. He had some fucking balls. RIP future generations.
if you finally get outside the plane, in your chute. you either get killed off by the enemy pilots/ or send off to a death camp when captured on the ground. so... Options? 0.
Pilots would struggle to kill someone in a chute and it was highly frowned upon to shoot anyone in a chute anyway not to mention a very big NO NO on both sides.
D4RKHOUND that’s not gonna matter when you just parachuted into the same place you just got done firebombing. The locals are gonna have one hell of a bone to pick with you
Good luck, you only would AT MOST have a model M1911A1 .45 pistol with 2 or 3, 7round magazinesagainst an angry mob and most likely enemy soldiers with mauser rifles and MP-40s
I'm certain one thing was going through Franz's mind was that you have to respect anyone who's able to take a beating like that and still manage to keep that thing in the air.
One of my uncle's was a middle gunner on a B17 in 2 crashes but it was in England. He was one of the lucky ones. Good video and music keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸
I read the book about Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown's encounter, Franz landed and went looking for the bomber thinking that they might've crashed or landed in German occupied areas. He knew that the civilians of the bombed cities were more dangerous than the army or airforce with how they treated downed crews. Thankfully the crew made it home but the bomber was a wreck thats for sure.
It broke my heart to see these beauties taken out...but be even more amazed at the stories of survival..these planes could fly back almost on bare airframe...and DID!
Play some war thunder in a B-17, the feeling of having both wings shot off no way to steer and still managing to drop your payload and proceed to quite literally rape 7 zero's into submission is one that can not be replicated.
Thank u Sabaton for your work.Thank you for your music and your appreciation of history. some people can find it to simple, but to me as a Pole it is more that i could asked for. I hope the next war we will be fighting the same site.
Franz Stigler proved that chivalry is not dead. An act of honor and mercy towards fellow warriors. An amazing man, an amazing story, and a song worthy of both.
A friend from work loaned me his copy of "A Higher Call." Reminiscent of Ernst Udet's famous encounter with George Guynemer, it is an absolutely heartwarming tale of mercy and chivalrousness in the skies.
no matter how strong and tough you think you are, youll never be as tough as the men who volunteered to liberate an entire continent by land, sea and air.
... я вспомнмл слова своего командира -"Если я услышу про то,что ты стреляешь в парашютистов,я лично тебя застрелю". "Для меня это было,как будто они летели на парашютах"@Франц Штиглер
If you are able, I highly recommend a visit to the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The B-17 "Memphis Belle" has been restored and is on display (so close you can *almost* touch it) and they have everything on display from a re-creation of the Wright Flyer to actual spacecraft and ballistic missiles.
Another thing people forget too about Franz Stigler is that when he refused to destroy this bomber, he also flew his plane between the bomber the ground forces so Axis AA would not target the bomber without hitting him.
This makes me remember the time i needed 1k rp for the me 262 with 50mm cnn and i saw a damaged bomber and just flew by him , he did not try to steer away . I just let him be . We still play togheter to this day . My team callled me a noob . I had all my rounds of the 35mm on the k4 . 2 of 4 engines were shot out and he had oil water and fuel leaks .
Being from Hungary next to the austrian border. My grandmother's story is what stayed with me. she was out in the meadows at the edge of a forest. 1 lonely german plane came, swooped down and chased her into the forest. For a few minutes she didn't understand but then the allied bombers came. She said she is grateful for that german pilot for sawing her life that day.
Dude this must have been so damn tough, You see your comrades fall outta the air, a plane landing on another plane, and mass murder happening everywhere, u can get shot down at any second.
You left out, in your explanation at the end, that Franz refused to shoot them down because he'd been trained under the code that he would be 'shot' if he fired on a helpless enemy in a parachute, and considered the crippled bomber full of wounded to be no different than a big group parachute. As well, that Their signals to eachother and different languages made eachother's intentions unclear, so Charlie's crew was unsure of what he'd really do once they were 'escaping', and turned the gun on him to warn him off, but no kill order was expressly given.
Outstanding song by the men from Sweden Sabaton who have done many great songs with great taste. To those who fought and died in the place that was so open, but you had nowhere to run! You were more likely to die here than any other combat zone. That changed a lot when fighters were able to come from England and back, with its fuel efficiency and combat range the P51 Men who did a remarkable job! For Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown, there one moment of kindness. This was the you’ll survive to tell this story Franz in a time of so much hate towards one another. That you are as good as any other man. Even defending your nation was your duty that Charlie made very clear in your meeting with Franz. Just remarkable and moving story. Do buy the book a higher calling tells it all in great detail.
Thank you very much, it amazing 👍 Спасибо это очень круто 👍. Мы помним их..... Не имеет значения какая нация или язык. Герои одни и мы помним их 👍👍👍Слава и вечная память героям 👍👍👍👍
Always a good thing to hear the stories of soldiers whose country's are bitter enemies yet find some kind of honorable ground between them. Though the examples I'm going to mention are from movies...the examples are just as touching as this one. In the movie WAR HORSE set during a fight in the trenches...when the both sides stopped fighting and both helped free the horse...the two soldiers even exchanging pleasantries. So for at least that 1 night...the war was a distant thing even if only temporary. The other...which I can't remember the name of being set during WW2...a German soldier encounter's a group of Americans plus a crashed Brit pilot...he recognizes one of the Americans who before the war as a missionary helped the German's family. As a result the soldier goes out of his way to help the group escape as much as he could.
You want to hear a war story about bitter enemies become friends. My great grand father's surname was Koble. Thats German. He served the father land in WWI he was captured while badly injured Durning the battle of Bella woods. The man who captured him I don't remember and the name matters not. Now I when I say captured it put it lightly the two men inflicted server wounds to each other with my great grand father passing out from blood loss first. The man insisted that he be taken back with them for medical treatment. That man became my great grandfathers warden. After the war they both traveled back to the United States where my great grandfather meet and fell in love with the man's sister. Kinda ironic. War drove to men to kill each other but the human hear can not be explained. If it was not for that war my grand father would never have been born. I'm living proof war can bring it both the best and worst of humanity
Couldn’t help but think of my late Uncle , who was an Ariel photographer. He and his crew were in a B-24 and shot down over Polotsi oil fields. He spent most of the war as a POW until the camp was liberated by allied forces.
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Anubis has a very good taste in music
@@adamsherry1359 And great timing, almost four years from publication. :P
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Great video, only caveat is that, according to Charlie Brown, after they crossed the Atlantic Wall, unsure of Stigler's intentions, he had the waist gunner point the .50 at Stigler but not fire, to warn him off.
Stigler (and Brown) likely would have both been shot down upon crossing back into England. Allied AA gunners were not as well-trained as German gunners were.
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@@erichvondonitz5325 I mean, technically both Steel commanders and bismark are still based on real events, though most bonus and some like Kingdom Come are not
@@apyr1439 I actually meant Kingdom Come, I forgot Steel Commander and Bismarck was sponsordeed
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This is one of the 3 favorite stories of WW2.
The other was when about an American unit who was ambushed and got lost on the snowy woods on Christmas Eve and a German woman and her child welcomed them in, another German rifle unit later found their way to the house. German woman also invited them in with the condition that their weapons are left outside and no fighting. The woman and her child, the American soldiers, and the Germans soldiers all spent the Christmas eve together with the medic of the Germans even tending to the wounded of the Americans.
Another hilarious one was when a British bomber got separated from its formation due to heavy clouds that day. They found the sillouette of a formation of Fighters they believed were their escorts and joined their formation. When they reached a clearing at the edge of the massive clouds, they realized they were flying in formation with the German Lutwaffe. The pilots and the plane's gunners all stared at each other for a moment until the German flight lead pointed to the direction of Britain. Then they all went their separate ways.
Alopekis If I remember correctly, I saw it on an old documentary when a WW2 veteran was interviewed. The story stuck to me since then hahaha
@@paulthenotsogreat8032 Do you have a source for that last one?
Oscar Bayton sadly I don't, I just remember seeing it on an old documentary on TV a long time ago and it was the story of one of the veterans interviewed. I found the story hilarious so it stuck to me since then
If you ever remember the source of the stories (especially the RAF-Luftwaffe one) please share, is awesome!
Gonzalo López G. Will do if ever :)
Franz and Charlie deserved a movie, but never got it.
It's an amazing story, but imagine how badly Hollywood would screw up and embelish the story to drag it out to feature length. It's perhaps best that Hollywood ignore this one out of respect.
Yet.
@@Loopcats Hollywood did an amazing job with Midway (2019). They only changed details for cinematic reasons, really. LIke formations being closer together than they should be. Things like that.If they took the same care with this as they did with Midway, I'd gladly pay to see it.
3:19, "Not yet"
I'd prefer a whole series on Netflix, so we can really dig into their history.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
Amen.
That cuts deep
Franz stigler... Man above all else.
frank taylor the way the world is now, we need more people like him from all walks of life today.
While the Craz Stigler event was unique, there are plenty of examples in many wars of enemy pilots being merciful. It's a sort of brotherhood that transcends nationality. In the first couple weeks of WWI, it wasn't uncommon that "enemy" pilots would fly right pass eachother, waving and smiling. That changed when Corporal Louis Quénault shot a German pilot, causing the plane to crash
He is a traitor
@@VincentKaiser How? Destroying a crippled bomber that was barely in a state to get home would have done nothing but kill the crew.
@@icantthinkofausername2605 Kill the killers.
Sometimes...it takes more courage not to pull the trigger...
100% agree! There are many instances in the Cold War where people were told to fire the nukes but refused.
... than to do it
As long as they're not in an SS uniform willingly
@@dimwitsixtytwelve actually one event did happen, during the Cold War the Soviet "Dead Hand System" dictated radiation levels and armed all the Soviet nuclear Warheads and aimed at USA but luckly it was still pre-automatic but it turns out that the radiation was false and the system was disarmed and prevented a nuclear war between USA and CCCP.
Dim Wit yeah. Like that one Russian officer on a submarine. During the Cold War I think
One of my favorite stories of WW2.
Another is the fate of HMS Glowworm. A light destroyer that ended up facing the Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser alone.
Glowworm shot until she was out of shells, then used starshells, used grapeshot, anything they could fire. Expended all her armament. Took hit after hit. The electrical system malfunctioned and the ship's siren locked on. The captain gave the order to ram Hipper, and the little destroyer sped toward the cruiser, siren screaming in defiance, smoke billowing from numerous holes blown in the side, all guns offline. The ram did little to Hipper, just like the rest of the fighting. The captain of Hipper sent a message to the British, commending Glowworm's captain and crew.
The story of USS Johnston is a similar story, and just as impressive. Small ships, completely overwhelmed, fighting like a battleship to their last man.
Don't forget the last stand of HMS JERVIS BAY and SS Beaverford. 2 ships that faced the German pocket battleship KMS Admiral Scheer
The Glowworm's captain Lieutenant Commander Gerard B. Roope was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross by the recommendation of HIpper's Capitan Hellmut Heye sent though the Red Cross!
Honestly sabaton should make a song on the little fella
On the condition that kido butai has a song of there own
Every time the lines:
Look to the right, then look again,
See the enemy in the eyes.
I physically get chills thinking of that situation. Fucking awesome song.
Major pucker factor when flying a crippled bomber and then seeing an enemy fighter out your right window with the pilot staring at you.
I mean the German pilot would've had any reason to shoot them down.
One bomber pilot less could save hundreds of german civilians.
Tactic bombing is different, but that one was someone dropping incendiary bombs onto civilians.
My great great uncle was in one of these attacks. He was a doctor. The field hospital got bombed by the british (Hundreds of metres of fields in every direction, so no mistake) with incendiary bombs.
It was so hot, his ears just melted. His entire face and head was burnt.
Plot twist: The people in that field hospital were captured allied soldiers. The doctors then just went out of there and didn't make any effort to rescue the patients (would have been a waste of time honestly. Look up white phosphorus).
Thats what I call karma. Much much deserved karma.
Bombing civilians is a war crime and concerning the nazis it is the same as if at a bank robbery the police would shoot the hostages to make the remaining hostages more hostile towards the ones that captured them.
Churchill and Eisenhower should have been sentenced to death along the other war criminals.
Carried out preferably by burning them to death.
Same..
Also the line "fly, fighting fair. It's the code of the air" just brings tears to my eyes..
😭😭
Imagine that though staring your enemy directly in the eye, one of the people you have been fighting and killing for months if not years and after all the things you both have done you are spared
That must have felt surreal
There’s this phenomenon known by hunters called buck fever. Buck fever is where you draw bead on an animal but you can’t shoot it because you’ve never shot another living being before.
the reason why franz never fired was because in training his commander said killing an unarmed plane is like killing a man in a parachute and if he ever about one of his pilots killing an unarmed plane or a man in a parachute he would fly up there and kill that pilot himself.
franz didn't believe in killing unarmed soldiers
Gustav Rodel said that, I think. He said "If I ever hear of any of you killing a man in a parachute, I'll shoot you myself".
That B17 was supposed to bomb ur own countries city and people living in there. I cant fully understand why he let them go out being german.
It's because Stigler's Brother was a JU-88 bomber pilot, and was shot down over England not long before this incident. He saw the dying men through the bombers airframe, and thought of his brother. This made him unable to pull the trigger, so he escorted them to the English channel. Source: A Higher Call by Adam Makos.
Mobius Stolz didnt know that, this makes sense, thanks
"Wars may by fought by weapons, but they are won by men." George s Patton
The crazyest man ever existed
hoi reference
2:28 Beautiful.
get goosebumps every time
@@abcdfghi9533 Omg. Its finally not me
@@Snappy69420 i hope not for the visuals. Cuz its a lie, the germans could only dream of fielding air squadrons like that. Realisticly they shouldve spottet like 5 planes.
@ you have a point
@ but also there was mission that more than 300 b17 were flying and there was 500 fw190 and bf109 protecting a factory so all of those planes can be that
Sabaton I could listen for hours - History and metal makes me proud of our joint European history and I don’t mean the EU I mean Europe.
This is why im proud to be white, and rightfully you too my friend.
Switzerland too?
Wait, the Swiss guard story
yes its fun to hear the stories of the U.S.A, Britain, and Germany in these conflicts
@@grimchameleon0546 Every race should be proud. Everyone fought in this war. Dont be a racist twit.
That 1.3k dislikes are the German anti-air crew who couldn't shoot because of the Bf-109 escort
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler are proof that the hatred and anger bread by war are no match for the love between people. Thank you Medjay Aleksindres Merytsekhmet for sharing this wonderful and true story to inspire the rest of humanity to love and care for each other.
Those B-17s were legendary war machines!
Hell yeah
@James Metric The Lancaster's hold a place in my heart but there is no denying the durability of the b-17
@James Metric Someone who I think is related to me (im not totally sure) was the pilot or co-pilot of a lancaster
Meanwhile in warthunder.....
ayo is nobody talking about spitfire?
I'm not sure why, but this strikes something deep in me, not just the music, but the story behind it.
Maybe you like the stories, Maybe you are related to someone, maybe you were there
I believe that in war, the first casualties are honor and truth. And finding out about men who had the courage not to fire against disarmed enemies fills my heart with happiness. All these acts of kindness during those troubled times show us what it really means to be human.
War make see what you are for te better and worse ...but too many the better of worse...humain is a wolve for humain before the first primitive kill ther own species not for survive or accidentaly but by hate ..hangry...jealousy...and all our thecnology culture religion are issue of these madness ...we always do the same mistake we regret we forgot an doing same thing same felling of violence and destruction..is inside us in our dna fight our own nature is too hard for many but easy find ennemies to destroy its our heavy legacy we are all guilty and victime its our paradox or maybe a curse...
@@damienvon-streignard1148 ok as good as your speech is, the grammatical mistakes ruin it for me
peut être que si j'avais appris l English ce serait plus agréable essayez de faire pareil en français , allemand ou neederland pour voir.
From down below one enemy’s spotted
So hurry up, rearm and refuel
But through the bomber's damaged air frame
See wounded men scattered and burned
Look to the right and then look again
And see the enemy in the eye
No bullets fly, spared by his mercy
Escorted out, out of harm’s way
Fly, fighting fair
It’s the code of the air
Brothers, heroes, foes
Killing machine, thunder in the sky
B-17, flying home
Killing machine
Said goodbye to the cross he deserved
He risked his life two times that day
To save an unknown enemy
Escort to safety, out of the killzone
A short salute, then departed
Fly, fighting fair
It's the code of the air
Brothers, heroes, foes
Killing machine, thunder in the sky
B-17, flying home
Killing machine
Said goodbye to the cross he deserved
Fly, fighting fair
It's the code of the air
Brothers, heroes, foes
Killing machine, thunder in the sky
B-17, flying home
Killing machine
Said goodbye to the cross he deserved
Thanks for the lyrics
Thanks so much. Really enhances the experience.
tks
Wow
Im pretty sure its scared to the bone not scattered and burned
3:58 actually, Charlie's intention was just to get Stiger to go away, since he was still unsure of stiglers intentions, and the fact that they would soon be within allied airspace And didn't want stigler to get shot down
If I remember correctly the guns were all frozen too, so they couldn’t even fire back if they wanted to
@@goldenhedgehog9 2 of them were okay if I remember correctly
Really Dead Guy from what I remember the only gun that wasn’t frozen was the tail gun, but the gunner had been killed in the strafing runs that damaged the B-17
goldenhedgehog9 the guns were functional, the gunners not so much
That part sort of made me scratch my head at the whole 'best friends' part.
Мое уважение пилотам "летающих крепостей". Реально, это были очень смелые люди.
Такие смельчаки во всех армиях союзников были. Вечная память отважным лётчикам!
А что за фильм в клипе?
@Astronomia🇷🇺 спасибо,не мог найти нигде.
This is one of my favorite stories from ww2. ^^
Nice. Hope you enjoyed the video!
Meme War primo Victoria is the best one
Same here, i cried a lot when i first saw that video about Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler
"Memphis Belle"
I think Juno is the best
The story behind and after the event are so heartwarming.
They are breathtaking
Every bomber who've shot down means 100 more civilians alive.. So I can understand if a Luftwaffe pilot would show no mercy but damn! I'm proud of Stiegler a man of honor
then the shotdowned bomber crashed in to a city and killed 200 civilians
If you show no mercy to the enemy then you can rest assured they will do the same, also you have a chance to put doubt in your enemy as you show them you are not the monster the propaganda machine says you are. Although in this case their cause was fucking monstrous.
St Well, their cause was monstrous but most people in the Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht and Kriegsmarine weren’t.
@@anothergermanmapper7754 I understand, and I understand they could have not just stood up and said we won't be part of this without themselves being killed. But willing or unwilling they were accomplices.
St They didn’t even know that this happened.
You could use the same Logic on every army in the world.
Also, you call them accomplices when many got forced to do it?
The Volksturm mobilized 14 Year olds to hold the allied Advance, does that make them Accomplices? No, of course not.
Yes, what the Nazi Regime did was a horrible act but you can’t say that Millions of people, with many having no choice, are accomplices.
слезы на глазах. Мужество тех людей, готовность к самопожертвованию. сабатон супер!
Это песня, Пули не полетели, посвещенна немецкому летчику и американцким пилотам бомбардировщика B17 ктрх он не сбил, когда те возвращались с задания, после войны они смогли встретится если не ошибаюсь
@@user-pt5of7yk2d всё верно, лётчик Bf 109 вроде, отправил Чарли письмо из Канады, потом они встретились, но да, это мило, вроде франц когда они встретились обнял Чарли, и сказал "я люблю тебя, Чарли" вот так. Если бы не франц, Чарли бы не стало.
@@user-pt5of7yk2d самое видео фрагмент из фильма?
@@user-bv4ne6cr2q а что за фильм в клипе?
@@user-op7gp4ri2r сам искал,не нашел.Если найдешь маякни.
This is an amazing story! I live in Russia and have never heard of such a thing before. How strange to learn the story of the songs. Thanks for the new knowledge, we always respect the memory of that war. After all, in our family, my family is not an exception, there are those who died or participated in that war. I lost one great-grandfather, the second received serious injuries in captivity in the Japanese. My father's father received fragments in the heart area and lived until 1999. Sorry for my English - I use an online translator, my English is not so good. But I could not help but admire this story!
human heart has always been stronger then war :) (no pun intended towards ur grandfather, i rly mean the bigger point) dont hold urself back, let ur stories be heard, so all of us here could strengthen our hearts aswell ^^
its exactly what u r sharing that everyone of us need, to stand up and fight the fights we face every day :)
Анатолий Попов
Thank you for your kind words.
As an American I am well aware of the suffering and loss the Russians endured during both WW1 and WW2.
I blame the Russian leadership on 25% of it (ANY man caught retreating will be shot!?)
While the Cold War really sucked, Russia’s contribution can not and should not be forgotten.
I hope in the future America and Russia can finally bury the hatchet and make peace with each other.
Also, I am less then thrilled with Trump (even as a Republican). Someone needs to close his damn twitter account!🤦♀️
But I will be honest....Putin scared me as a kid in the 1990’s.
One thing History has taught me is that enemies can become friends, allies can become enemies, and nothing is set in stone.
Frankly the only that that will 100% unite all humans at this point is an Alien Invasion 👽.
Bet the Aliens would leave Russia before they leave the USA though.
Between the cold and hard core tactics, the Aliens would not stand a chance.
😅Like the German Army when it tried to take Moscow!
You have good English my friend
You speak good English. I am an American and always respected the Russians. You guys went through Hell in both World Wars....... I know this because, my grandfather also served the USA Marines during World War 2 and stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day June 6th 1944........ he lost his friend in action that day. Blew up right in front him....... and got shot a few times on his legs. But he kept going or he knew it would be his end. In my eyes Russia and the USA are brothers and not enemies.
@@BearerWill17 were all brothers just media messing with us
I recommend A HIGHER CALLING to everyone. I have read the story over and over again. Some of these pilots were more than Heroes.
Nobody my War Thunder teammates 0:42
XD
When u have no more ammo in warthunder
Fam Brtan I used to kamikaze if that happened
The_Mad_Bear 1942 top dangerous situation)
The_Mad_Bear 1942 "
I play WT i love WT
Right but i dont shoot the b 25 scout him i dont kown why
I hope Stigler and Charlie gets a movie. Two great heroes that fought for their Nation.
Co za niedorozwoje dali dislike dla tego cudownego dzieła? :| Jesteście Zajebiści!!! Pozdrawiam!!!
Could understand your comment knowing Russian only :D
After all this time, this song hits right in the feels.
The Greatest Generation. So few left now.
Humanity works just as an economy.
Hard times create strong people. Peace time creates weak people.
Hard times kill weak people.
Weak people demonize the strong when at peace.
@@sirnimbus3498 so true
@Timothy Ashton So edgy, much wow. Pathetic. Some day you'll be embarrassed of yourself.
@Timothy Ashton It's "vacuous", Mr. Artisanal Pencil Sharpener.
@@familyman3573 Its very true, though
0:41
Plane 1: Hey Tomy
Plane 2: Hey Jeffrey
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD that XDDDDDD
My grand father was a top turret engineer on a B-17. He served his first 25 missions with the 8th AF from '42-'43. Then went back and served with the15th AF in Italy mid '44. Had a total of 37 missions. Died on Christmas when I was 6. Wish I could have talked to him about it. He had some fucking balls. RIP future generations.
Go asked the soldiers/pilots he served along side while you still have time.
Someone has to remember.
0:44
Plane when it’s mating season
Lmao thanks for the laugh!
XD
pffff damnit dude, you made me choke on my breakfast.
@@bridgeprincessismywaifu1025 BEKFAST
It's hard to tell what the real B-17 pilots experienced. It's just a nightmare, because you can not escape from the plane!
if you finally get outside the plane, in your chute. you either get killed off by the enemy pilots/ or send off to a death camp when captured on the ground. so... Options? 0.
Pilots would struggle to kill someone in a chute and it was highly frowned upon to shoot anyone in a chute anyway not to mention a very big NO NO on both sides.
D4RKHOUND that’s not gonna matter when you just parachuted into the same place you just got done firebombing. The locals are gonna have one hell of a bone to pick with you
Good luck, you only would AT MOST have a model M1911A1 .45 pistol with 2 or 3, 7round magazinesagainst an angry mob and most likely enemy soldiers with mauser rifles and MP-40s
@Christian Batacan not sure if sarcastic...
The beginning piece with the downed bomber falling on top of the other was the most wicked thing I've ever seen
flak does crazy things to planes, I saw one where a B 17 took a direct hit from a flak 88 and the entire wind just sheered off
I'm certain one thing was going through Franz's mind was that you have to respect anyone who's able to take a beating like that and still manage to keep that thing in the air.
B17: *gets beaten to a point where most other aircrafts would crash
Also B17: Tis' but scratch
@@barnykirashi they weren't called the "Flying Fortress" for nothing
The old declare wars... The young fight in those wars.
A Higher Call is a great book that recounts this event! A must read imo!
Man they have got to get this movie over the line - it looks awesome - and Sabaton should provide the soundtrack!
One of my uncle's was a middle gunner on a B17 in 2 crashes but it was in England. He was one of the lucky ones. Good video and music keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸
I read the book about Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown's encounter, Franz landed and went looking for the bomber thinking that they might've crashed or landed in German occupied areas. He knew that the civilians of the bombed cities were more dangerous than the army or airforce with how they treated downed crews. Thankfully the crew made it home but the bomber was a wreck thats for sure.
Every time I listen to this band I get transported back to Wolfenstein....it's so good
It broke my heart to see these beauties taken out...but be even more amazed at the stories of survival..these planes could fly back almost on bare airframe...and DID!
Play some war thunder in a B-17, the feeling of having both wings shot off no way to steer and still managing to drop your payload and proceed to quite literally rape 7 zero's into submission is one that can not be replicated.
One of the best books I have ever read. They should make a movie on it.
Thank u Sabaton for your work.Thank you for your music and your appreciation of history. some people can find it to simple, but to me as a Pole it is more that i could asked for. I hope the next war we will be fighting the same site.
Franz Stigler proved that chivalry is not dead. An act of honor and mercy towards fellow warriors. An amazing man, an amazing story, and a song worthy of both.
Best Friends forever
Pilot Franz Stigle and Captain Charlie Brown
Stigler attended Brown's funeral and died of old age not too long after.
I’ve meet and talked to a B-17 waist gunner, he was really cool to talk to he was 94 when I talked to him but that was a few years ago
"Inspired by trey events"
You mean like every other sabaton song?
*most
@@sejn195Or metal machine? Yeah neither of those are historical references...
still most of the songs are based on actual events
They even have songs about Lord of the Rings
@@lennartmoritz942 the most famous historical event
Doesn't matter it's all great music
"A Higher Call" is one of the books written about this. It's a great book
A friend from work loaned me his copy of "A Higher Call." Reminiscent of Ernst Udet's famous encounter with George Guynemer, it is an absolutely heartwarming tale of mercy and chivalrousness in the skies.
no matter how strong and tough you think you are, youll never be as tough as the men who volunteered to liberate an entire continent by land, sea and air.
Still waiting for this movie that was allegedly promised a while back.
Idk what happend
I am so happy one of my friends has introduced me to this band when this song first premiered.
... я вспомнмл слова своего командира
-"Если я услышу про то,что ты стреляешь в парашютистов,я лично тебя застрелю".
"Для меня это было,как будто они летели на парашютах"@Франц Штиглер
Что за фильм ?
@@user-pb4re8if2y его мемуары.
Что за фильм?
Sabaton dziękuję jesteście cudownie. Jestem babcią i Polką kocham wasze piosenki.
Love this story! Love this song! Those boys faces say it all.
The book on that event at the end is absolutely amazing. Showing the point of veiw of the Germans mainly from Franz himself.
This song will never get old. The "ooooooo ooooo oooooo" part gets me every damn time
If you are able, I highly recommend a visit to the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The B-17 "Memphis Belle" has been restored and is on display (so close you can *almost* touch it) and they have everything on display from a re-creation of the Wright Flyer to actual spacecraft and ballistic missiles.
Greetings from Greece ! Cant wait to see them live in 3 weeks
Lucky :-) Hope you enjoy it
yes actualy one of the best fan made videos
Nick P. Thank you very much! I'm pleased that you like this video alot!
Haha
Wow the story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler is... beautifull. Didn't knew this one, glad to learn that
If anyone knows the game 'Bomber Crew' this is the feeling when you lose an engine
Очень понравилась песня. Одна из моих любимых)
0:41 this is how cruel war can be
Your just flying and the butterfly affect happens, it killed the best of them
That actually made me sad
映像と併せてかなり逼迫した状況なのが伝わってきて心揺さぶられるよ👍🏻
Another thing people forget too about Franz Stigler is that when he refused to destroy this bomber, he also flew his plane between the bomber the ground forces so Axis AA would not target the bomber without hitting him.
Hi
If that's the case, this man must have smelled like mad lad from twenty paces.
Before everyone gets all friendly, Charlie's dog snoopy, was always trying to bring down the Red Barron.
This makes me remember the time i needed 1k rp for the me 262 with 50mm cnn and i saw a damaged bomber and just flew by him , he did not try to steer away . I just let him be . We still play togheter to this day . My team callled me a noob . I had all my rounds of the 35mm on the k4 . 2 of 4 engines were shot out and he had oil water and fuel leaks .
This story is what true heroism and courage means
Being from Hungary next to the austrian border. My grandmother's story is what stayed with me. she was out in the meadows at the edge of a forest. 1 lonely german plane came, swooped down and chased her into the forest. For a few minutes she didn't understand but then the allied bombers came. She said she is grateful for that german pilot for sawing her life that day.
Masters of the Air: January 26, 2024 on AppleTV+.
Dude this must have been so damn tough, You see your comrades fall outta the air, a plane landing on another plane, and mass murder happening everywhere, u can get shot down at any second.
What an incredible piece of history.
I hate to admit I have listened to this over 1000 times...
Franz, you didn't get the iron cross, but you got something more, you got immortality ❤❤❤
Sabaton- the band that lyrics sheets were invented for.
You left out, in your explanation at the end, that Franz refused to shoot them down because he'd been trained under the code that he would be 'shot' if he fired on a helpless enemy in a parachute, and considered the crippled bomber full of wounded to be no different than a big group parachute. As well, that Their signals to eachother and different languages made eachother's intentions unclear, so Charlie's crew was unsure of what he'd really do once they were 'escaping', and turned the gun on him to warn him off, but no kill order was expressly given.
9 years we waiting this movie
What is the movie bro??? Thanks
Outstanding song by the men from Sweden Sabaton who have done many great songs with great taste. To those who fought and died in the place that was so open, but you had nowhere to run! You were more likely to die here than any other combat zone. That changed a lot when fighters were able to come from England and back, with its fuel efficiency and combat range the P51 Men who did a remarkable job!
For Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown, there one moment of kindness. This was the you’ll survive to tell this story Franz in a time of so much hate towards one another. That you are as good as any other man. Even defending your nation was your duty that Charlie made very clear in your meeting with Franz. Just remarkable and moving story. Do buy the book a higher calling tells it all in great detail.
Call of Duty:United Offensive-mission 5.
A For Andy
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It's the callsign for the bomber you get to fly in.
D3STRUCT0R Realy ? Played it long time ago... :D
Milan Kolarski OK
Thank you very much, it amazing 👍 Спасибо это очень круто 👍. Мы помним их..... Не имеет значения какая нация или язык. Герои одни и мы помним их 👍👍👍Слава и вечная память героям 👍👍👍👍
Chost Dark респек тебе👍
Amazing this band loved the songs, joined my play list.
look at the other Songs from them they are amazing too!
Bsp. Bismark, Back in Control, Night Witches ... .
this band is the only thing on my playlist lol
Мы помним их, навсегда!👍👍👍
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler!
Stigler didn't earn kills. He earned victories. He had 27 victories earned, one left to the Magic 30 to earn the knights cross
22 Victories, he needed 23 for the medal.
@@vanesaed36 did you ever read the book?
I’ve read the book about this
It’s amazing I would highly recommend it
these historical footage is awesome
No lie, after reading the story at the end and re watching the video, I totally teared up quite a bit.
Always a good thing to hear the stories of soldiers whose country's are bitter enemies yet find some kind of honorable ground between them.
Though the examples I'm going to mention are from movies...the examples are just as touching as this one. In the movie WAR HORSE set during a fight in the trenches...when the both sides stopped fighting and both helped free the horse...the two soldiers even exchanging pleasantries. So for at least that 1 night...the war was a distant thing even if only temporary.
The other...which I can't remember the name of being set during WW2...a German soldier encounter's a group of Americans plus a crashed Brit pilot...he recognizes one of the Americans who before the war as a missionary helped the German's family. As a result the soldier goes out of his way to help the group escape as much as he could.
You want to hear a war story about bitter enemies become friends. My great grand father's surname was Koble. Thats German. He served the father land in WWI he was captured while badly injured Durning the battle of Bella woods. The man who captured him I don't remember and the name matters not. Now I when I say captured it put it lightly the two men inflicted server wounds to each other with my great grand father passing out from blood loss first. The man insisted that he be taken back with them for medical treatment. That man became my great grandfathers warden. After the war they both traveled back to the United States where my great grandfather meet and fell in love with the man's sister.
Kinda ironic. War drove to men to kill each other but the human hear can not be explained. If it was not for that war my grand father would never have been born. I'm living proof war can bring it both the best and worst of humanity
Couldn’t help but think of my late Uncle , who was an Ariel photographer. He and his crew were in a B-24 and shot down over Polotsi oil fields. He spent most of the war as a POW until the camp was liberated by allied forces.
Many thanks for this lesson of Histrory !!!!!!!!!!
GREAT GERMAN PILOT !!!!!!!!!!
Those who sacrificed their lives to win the war we salute u all..........
Imagine people who don't care about what they did
@@mrrexychomp9829 sad reality is a lot of people don't
Commander, We lost our wings!,
Good, we didn't need them anyway
LmAo
It is heartwarming that they found each other after the war and became friends
Just discovered Sabaton! WOW! Y'all gotta get in concert with Two Steps From Hell!
Luftwaffe pilots can be knights, Deutchland 👍💪🇩🇪
💪🏻🇩🇪
They can, but often they didn't want. *1939-1943*
@@einarbrust8655 gramatiknazi.
Ja, das ist mit Absicht falsch
Luftwaffe and Red Baron
СССР ПВО 💪😉