A Higher Call

Adam Makos, Larry Alexander 2013 Bvtn 940.5443

Catholic, brother August anti-Hitler, who died flying a Ju-88 bomber in 1940
1927 flew in homebuilt glider as adolescent p25 "The eagles know where the good air is - follow them"
1936 Lufthansa pilot
1938 "drafted" as He-72 flight instructor for Luftwaffe
April to September 1942 Flying Messerschmitt BF-109s in North Africa
April to August 1943 Sicily, then Germany

p150 error during crew training in 1943 Texas: "Pechout ... would have preferred to stay in the barracks examining its (radio) tubes and transistor chips rather than go hell-raising ..." no transistors before the 1950s
p154 Dec 20 1943 379th Bomb Group at Kimbolton north of London. 10 man crew on Ye Olde Pub
p174 error "The aluminum (skin) ... was only a few centimeters thick ..." millimeters?
p180 engine failure after raid on Bremen, FW190 fighter attack, p185 "slowly dismembered"
p190 Stigler ME109 From Jever, p200 finds Pub
p202 This will be no victory for me. Franz decided. I will not have this on my conscience for the rest of my life.
Stigler first tries to get them to land as POW, then point them east toward Sweden, then peels off after less than 10 minutes
p214 landed at Seething 448th Bomb Group

1945 Adolf Galland Me-262 jet training at Lechfeld in southern Germany, 900 km/h ("575 miles per hour", 925 km/h)
Mar 1945 Stigler joins "Galland's Circus" at Brandenburg Airfield
Apr 28 1945 Stigler flies jet to Salzberg Austria, drives kettenrad motorbike halftrack, then walks to Berchtesgaden to surrender to the Americans
1947 in Straubing, making sewing machines, marries Eva
1953 Canada, logging camp in the Queen Charlotte Islands, divorced Eva in 1954
1956, marries Hiya
1980 retired, flew in air shows with an Me 108 4 seat transport painted like an Me 109
1995 Boeing 50th anniversary for B17
Jan 18, 1990 Letter with details from Stigler to Charles Brown
June 21 1990 Meet in Seattle