Si Spiegel - one of the last bomber pilots of World War II still with us.

[FLYBOYJ]

Great Story

He Bombed the Nazis, Outwitted the Soviets and Modernized Christmas

The B-17 he was piloting had lost two of its four engines to enemy fire, and as Si Spiegel surveyed the ruined landscape, he had one thought: We have to get behind the Russian front. As part of the Allied raid on Berlin, his bomber had dropped its payload over the German capital, but he’d been...

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[Dimlee]

What a story.
"Spiegel's first flight in formation, at age 20, was a short mission over Belgium..." What a generation.

 

[Gnomey]

Great story!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

What a man.