Five days before Christmas in 1943, over the skies of Germany, Charlie Brown, a 20-year-old farm boy from West Virginia, encountered Franz Stigler, a 29-year-old German flying ace. Brown, the pilot of ...

In response to the letter “Suggested reading for Hegseth” (Jan. 4, TribLive): For Charles Brown and Franz Stigler, things turned out well that day, but many others died at the hands of each afterwards ...

All eyes in Germany’s Jever airbase were locked on the approaching aircraft as the renowned Fighter Ace Franz Stigler executed a perfect landing. His Messerschmitt Bf 109, a striking gray with a dark ...

Combat was raging in the skies over Germany. It was World War II, a few days before Christmas 1943. An American B-17 bomber, heavily damaged by enemy fire while in a raid on Bremen, was limping back ...

EXCLUSIVE: Neophyte screenwriter John Marckesano has been tapped to adapt true story WWII tale A Higher Call for Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun, Shakespeare In Love) and Solipsist Films.

Most Americans do not know the name Franz Stigler. In late 1943, in the air war over Germany, Stigler climbed into the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf-109 to pursue a badly damaged B-17. The American ...