Thoughts the Stigler-Brown incident
>>64663319It was a retarded rationale considering the bomber flew back home, got repaired and went back to bombing germs (deserved), but good for him
>>64663319very honorable man that Stigler. and I really like that they met and became friends decades later>>64663399no it didn't return, it was sent back to the US in 44 and scrapped in 45
Reading the message at the end of the book made me tear up.>In 1940, I lost my only brother as a night-fighter. On December 20th, 1943, four days before Christmas, I was able to save a B-17 from its destruction. The pilot, Charlie Brown, is for me as precious as my brother was. - Thanks Charlie. Your brother, Franz
>>64663399They were churning out bullshit numbers of B17's by '43. The real loss would have been the crew itself.
Utterly bizarre to find comradery in someone bombing your own country's civilians
>>64664187That is because you are retarded
>>64663399That's not soldiering!
>>64664187>Utterly bizarre to find comradery in someone bombing your own country's civiliansAgreed
>>64663319Would have been funny if his wife and children had been turned to ash by a bombing run afterward.
>help save enemy bomber crew>they go back and come bomb your civvies againLMAO
>>64663319Should have been one of the stories featured in Masters of the Air, along with this one:>Fifteen other American bombers landed safely or crash-landed in Switzerland that day. Some of them had been fired on by Swiss pilots and flak gunners. This was not unusual. By the end of the summer of 1944, over a thousand Americans would be in Swiss hands, held under military guard and forbidden from leaving the country for the duration of the war.>In the last two years of the war, the “benevolent hosts” of the American airmen threw 187 of them into one of the most abhorrent prison compounds in Europe, a punishment camp run by a sadistic Nazi. One of these unfortunates was Daniel Culler. Culler was never told why he was sent to Straflager Wauwilermoos, or for how long. As he passed through the gates of the prison, his military guard whispered to him. “I’m sorry to bring you to this hellhole. Watch your every step. There are some awful men in here, and you are so young.”>Culler's good clothes were confiscated by Béguin in return to "old dirty rags." Sent to barracks 9, Culler was repeatedly raped by internees from Eastern Europe. He reported to the camp commandant André Béguin and some of the guards, who laughed and sent him back.>“What happened to me that night, and many more to follow, was the worst hell any person ever had to endure,” Culler wrote in his searing prison memoir. A group of Russian prisoners held him down, stuffed straw in his mouth, and sodomized him repeatedly. “Coming from a small farming community, I never heard of men doing to me what they did. I... hadn’t even been with a girl, except to hold her hand and give her a light kiss on her cheek or mouth. I was bleeding from all the openings of my body, and I prayed to God to take my life from me.”
>>64665234>He was raped again the next morning and forced to have oral sex with several of his assailants, who stuck sticks in his mouth to pry it open. After being knocked unconscious, he awoke to find blood running down his throat. Too weak to move, and with his hands tied behind his back, he was thrown into the waste ditch outside the barracks. “When I finally came to my senses, I crawled from the ditch and tried to wipe myself with straw. I noticed something was hanging from my rectum, and realizing it was skin from the inside, I tried to push it back in.”>Within days Culler’s entire body was covered with boils from the lice and rats in the feces-contaminated straw. The rapes continued and became more violent. He began to vomit blood and an unknown yellow substance, and he developed chronic, bloody diarrhea.>When Culler was finally taken from Wauwilermoos and given his day in court, he discovered that Swiss justice was a mockery. The military court proceeding was conducted entirely in German, and when it was over, Culler was handed an English translation of the transcript. He would be sent back to Wauwilermoos without medical treatment and for an unstated period of time. The transcript did not contain a single word of his oral testimony describing his rape and the conditions inside the prison. The final indignity was a bill Culler received for 18 francs—compensation for the court’s time and trouble.>Back in prison, Culler was tormented by a loud ringing in his ears—the result of beatings suffered at the hands of the Russians. They had been transferred, but sitting alone in a corner of the barracks, wrapped in a thin blanket, Dan Culler felt he was losing his mind. “The last I remember at Wauwilermoos, I was acting like a madman, trying to stuff straw down my throat so I could not breathe.”
>>64665234>>64665238Howany times have you posted this?
>>64663883the crew did returned tho, and returned the favor by bombing Germany again Stigler was a traitor and nothing more
>>64665238From wikipedia". The American military attaché in Bern warned Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Swiss foreign minister in 1944, that "the mistreatment inflicted on US aviators could lead to 'navigation errors' during bombing raids over Germany"Based! I hope it is a true story.
>>64665234>>64665238Why were there Russians in a Swiss military prison?
>>64663319Reading the book makes you realize the rest of Stigler's life way more interesting than this one incident.Rubbing shoulders with other German aces, going from North Africa to Europe, watching the war slowly turn, it's really cool.
>>64665519To my understanding, the Swiss were only "Neutral" on paper and quite sympathetic to Germany at the time. So they did some favors for the Germans I assume and got a hold of some of their PoWs.
>>64665519More to the point what is it with Russians and male rape
>>64665519Russians simply appear wherever a prison is built scientists believe it's the only documented type of spontaneous generation.
>not only leave an enemy bomber scot free, but escort it back to enemy linesretardation bordering on insanity. warrants a court martial for treason.
>>64663399>>64665065>>64665116>Be vatnik/jew/thirdie/commie >Can't see the beauty of one's humanity shining through in the hell of war >Openly fantasize about killing women and children >>64665234>>64665238Absolutely disgusting. We should've listened to Lindbergh and/or Patton.
>>64665234>>64665238Every time some faggot starts praising the Mountain Jews for how le based they are, post this.
