Enemy Pilots Become Friends After Strange Encounter | Tales From the Bottle

Such an amazing story, this hit me in the feels for sure.

This is a true example of honor, bravery, and morals. Standing up for what you believe in and doing the right thing when you have absolutely no incentive to do so.

The true definition of chivalry and love for your fellow human being.

Shit, I’m glad I’m not the only one who is crying

…and today these young people think a popped out door on a 737 is a big safety problem.

3:30 😂

Nineteen Forty Tree…. God I miss Ireland! 😉

9:12 onions to disguise your crying, I see. 🤨

yeah, i was cutting onions… 😢

Next time while you make some videos, please do it more mature and more serious.

There’s a book called A Higher Call that covers the stories of both these men, the author interviewed them both and they really have incredible stories even beyond this amazing incident.
I remember Franz wrote that even against the Soviets there was a strong degree of comraderie with enemy pilots. It’s been years so I don’t remember exact quotes, but I know he very much disliked destroying a plane in a way that would burn the pilot, he and the old guard of the Luftwaffe preferred to either allow them to bail out, or to finish them to spare them burning in the cockpit. He said most of the older pilots who had been trained pre war found it unbecoming of an airman to kill someone parachuting down. It really seemed like those prewar trained pilots had a strong sense of chivalry when it came to air combat, which I suppose makes sense coming from WWI’s tradition. It was surprising to me that they even felt this way about the Soviets, when that’s not typically the way any other Germans treated them as enemies. So I guess Franz must’ve felt that the bomber had already made its run, and killing the crew would have done little to save Germany at that point.

CLASS

War make enemies but here it made friends

Good God man, these types of stories should come with a trigger warning (no pun intended). Sublime.

Love how charlie brown looked like the cartoon charlie brown! 😂

We are f*cked up. We just want to go home… i cried my effing eyes out. What an amazing story!

An amazing story !