A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War NOV14DB and blooded in combat against

and blooded in combat against the Japanese by VF-5 seven months later

At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown

The Fight in the Clouds offers a cockpit-seat view of one of WWII's most celebrated aircraft and the men who bravely flew it into harm's way

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A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War NOV14DB and blooded in combat againstDecember, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty one year old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bombers tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stiglerand he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger What happened next would defy imagination and later be