the airing cupboard's extraordinary stories of ordinary

Dec 19 2023 29 mins

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This story is about the skies over Germany on a cold 20th of December 1943, about a German Ace pilot, an American bomber commander, and an act of mercy that turned two ennemies into brothers...

If you want to know more about this story, you can read the book:
A Higher Call by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander

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Music:

Hot October by Wood Spider
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

and

Convergence, Break Through and Horses by The Pictures of the Floating World
From Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

and

Smoldering, Summer Days, Universe in Hands and November by Kai Engel
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

and

The Bridge by David Hilowitz
From Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial- 4.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Sounds:

B17.wav by Relwin

From Free Sounds

Attribution 4.0 International

Messerschmitt Bf 109 Startup and Taxiing by FlighttoflyPhoto

From Free Sounds

Attribution NonCommercial 3.0

Spitfires and Bf-109 Flyby by FlighttoflyPhoto

From Free Sounds

Attribution NonCommercial 3.0

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EkmyoG83Q

https://historycollection.com/mercy-war-german-pilot-spared-crippled-b-17-wounded-crew-two-pilots-became-friends-war/