LITTLE STORY FROM THE GREAT WAR - PART 2

FRIENDSHIP TWO FIGHTER PILOT OF TWO COUNTRIES ARE FIGHT

Returning from a bombing mission to the aircraft manufacturer Focke Wulf in BREMEN on December 20, 1943, a B-17 bomber heavily damaged. Oxygen systems, hydraulic and electric apart. Aircraft, commanded by Lieutenant CHARLES BROWN 21-year-old, highly responsive control. The engine also just one that works.
Defense only two, one at the dome summit and one on the snout. Tail gunner was dead. Several other crew members were seriously injured. Brown himself exposed metal fragments in her shoulder.
But he tried to serve her attacker. Every wave of attacks came, Brown made a sharp turn toward the attacker plane. In fact, the plane was upside down, but miraculously be normalized again when the height is only about 350 meters above the ground.

Whatever the circumstances, Brown tried hard to bring home bombernya damaged. When direct the plane to England, he looked right window and saw a rush ambushed beside BF 190 German right wing. The pilot waving, fly in front and signaled that Brown landed at the German base. Brown refused. After crossing the North Sea a few kilometers, the German pilot gave the military salute, turned and disappeared.
1986 Brown began searching for the pilot. 1990 Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Franz Stigler wrote back Brown transmitted through a communication forum German pilots. By matching all the data, Brown is convinced that the one pilot Stiggler virtuous it. They were friends.
WHY HE'S NOT SHOOTS???

In fact, at times tense, Stigler had two strong motives to shoot down the bomber B-17, commanded by Brown.
First: the morning that he had dropped two four-engined bomber, and only need one more for the award MEDAL KSATRIA.
Second: he threatened were tried by a military court and threatened with the death penalty if found not to kill their opponents.
Stigler consider the matter. However, he chose not to shoot down "BOMBER MOST SERIOUS DAMAGE CAN STILL FLY, I HAVE EVER SEEN". He could watch the crew were seriously injured in the plane and thinking, do not have the heart to kill people dying, tantamount to firing at pilot parachute plunge.
(Source: Aji Darma, Air War in Europe (Jakarta: Kompas Media Nusantara, 2007), pp. 363-364)