You Have To See This! Rep Don Young Urges Producing American
Energy & Opening ANWR
Congressman Don Young urges the opening of ANWR and the development of
American Energy Sources. His bill, HR 6107, the American Energy Independence
and Price Reduction Act, would open ANWR and use the approximately $200
billion in federal revenue generated to develop Alternative Energy sources
The TRUTH About ANWR
Amazing B-17 Story
Look
carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead,
tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up. It was ready to fall out of the sky. Then realize that there is a German
ME-109 fighter flying next to it.
Now read the story below.
I
think you'll be surprised.
Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber
Group at Kimbolton, England. His B-17 was called 'Ye Old Pub' and was in
a terrible state, having been hit by flak and fighters. The compass was
damaged and they were flying deeper over enemy territory instead of
heading home to Kimbolton.
After flying over an enemy airfield, a German pilot named Franz Steigler
was ordered to take off and shoot down the B-17. When he got near the
B-17, he could not believe his eyes. In his words, he 'had never seen a
plane in such a bad state'. The tail and rear section was severely
damaged, and the tail gunner wounded. The top gunner was all over the
top of the fuselage. The nose was smashed and there were holes
everywhere .
Despite having ammunition, Franz flew to the side of the B-17 and looked
at Charlie Brown, the pilot. Brown was scared and struggling to control
his damaged and blood-stained plane.
Aware that they had no idea where they were going, Franz waved at
Charlie to turn 180 degrees. Franz escorted and guided the stricken
plane to, and slightly over, the North Sea towards England. He then
saluted Charlie Brown and turned away, back to Europe.
When Franz landed he told the CO that the plane had been shot down over
the sea, and never told the truth to anybody. Charlie Brown and the
remains of his crew told all at their briefing, but were ordered never
to talk about it.
More than 40 years later, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe
pilot who saved the crew. After years of research, Franz was found. He
had never talked about the incident, not even at post-war reunions.
They met in the USA at a 379th Bomber Group reunion, together with 25
people who are alive now - all because Franz never fired his guns that
day.
God Bless you Franz....
Research shows that Charlie Brown lived in Seattle and
Franz Steigler had moved to Vancouver, BC after the war.
When they finally met, they discovered they had lived less than 200
miles apart for the past 50 years!
