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Hitler and The Party took over Germany after 56 percent of the country had voted against them.
Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war.
“Always do the right thing, even if no one sees it.”
And the “Polish troops” who had raided the German radio station were actually German commandos wearing Polish uniforms. Hitler had ordered this. He wanted a war of expansion, and he lied to his own people to get it.
“If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute,” Roedel said, “I will shoot you down myself.”
“You follow the rules of war for you, not for your enemy,” Roedel said. “You fight by rules to keep your humanity.”
he had originally been a soldier in the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord in Monterey, California.
When Charlie reported to the 8th, he had landed himself in a unit that would lose more men in the war than the U.S. Marine Corps.
Their code said to fight with fearlessness and restraint, to celebrate victories not death, and to know when it was time to answer a higher call.
The sight was a beautiful one, the little fighter protecting the big bomber. They flew together out over the gray sea as if they were leaving one world for another.
No one said it, but it looked like the 109 was taking the bomber home.
