He Bombed the Nazis, Outwitted the Soviets and Modernized Christmas

Non Paywall:

https://news.yahoo.com/bombed-nazis-outwitted-soviets-modernized-161507192.html

Thanks for the link to the Non Paywall. It was a wonderful story!

What an interesting story and how lucky mr. Spiegel was to survive this Berlin raid.....

A Jew giving Adolph what-for. Love it.

Interesting that they repaired aircraft and flew it from Poland to Foggia Italy over Russian held territory ... Which leads me to my uncles logbook as pilot in 15th AAF 2 BG, 20th Squadron WWII flying out of Foggia Italy.. Some stories just need telling and this is from his logbook ... Mission #49 July 27,1944 Budapest Hungary. Bombed armament works. Flak was heavy intense and Accurate. Many holes in ship. Lost #1 engine over target due to flak. Feathered #1. Flak also hit #2 engine knocking out supercharger and causing bad oil leak. Had to feather #2 engine 20 minutes off target. Crew threw out all possible equipment- guns, armor plate, flak suits, bombsight etc. Salvoed the ball turret in time to clear mountains in Yugoslavia. Flew at 115 mph. Was able to hold ALT. Made good landing. Much credit should go to Dittrich & Crosser. Dittrich stayed in ball turret while #1 engine was on fire + kept me informed about #2 engine oil leaking on hot supercharger. He got out of ball when I feathered #2. Crosser was key man in getting rid of ball turret. Ship was #118 SNAFUPERMAN .... This was one of the missions that earned him issuance of 3 DFC's .... Three of his missions were also 'Operation Frantic' where they flew from Foggia to Mirgrorad Russia then back to Foggia after staying in Russia. He went to Russia in 1996 to receive a medal for operation Frantic .... Never once did tell me a story from WWII.... His next mission #50 was his last with nothing but a piece of flak through the windscreen that nicked his neck which he brought home as a farewell souvenir.

What a great story. Hopefully, he has the ability to get it told and printed before he heads to that big squadron in the sky.

As for those complaining about the story being behind a paywall, a simple change to your settings for your browser not allowing cookies from the site, will allow you to read the story.

If using Chrome, go to chrome://settings/cookies and add www.nytimes.com to sites that can never use cookies. Problem solved.

Today's Bovine Scatology: New York Times paywall.

He needs to write a book ASAP before it’s too late. My late Father was finally going to learn how to use a computer & write down all of his stories abt his WW2 unit. Sadly he had a stroke that night & passed away the next day.

This Was I thought going to be a good Read however it was blocked because it came from the NYT and that’s BS having to pay for a Article that Flight Aware posted! Merry Christmas 🤔☹️🥲

Thanks for the link to a paywall....

Click-bate to a subscription, waste of time. Thanks bbabis.

I was a member of a flying club and one of our members had flown for the Luftwaffe during WW2. If you google "the missing ten minutes - Franz Stigler" you will find a story of uncommon kindness. In our lounge we the the original painting which depicted this event. Heroes and compassionate people wore both uniforms.

awesome story with a breathtaking panorama of history, culture and flying.

Please don't include posts we can't read without paying.

find it here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9vcnvaz

I have no interest in seeing an article like this in Flightaware where you have to pay to read. It's BS having to pay for a Article that Flight Aware posted!

Les, thanks for the free link.

Great story indeed. Many brave people didn't live through the war to tell their story. Thanks for all that protect us.

Wouldn't mind if the money went to Si.

The non-paywall link crashed my computer. Oh, well. One day one of the grandkids will figure it out for me :)

Why link us to places that require a subscription? Just stupid....

Don't waste our time with NY Times links EVER.

Not going to subscribe

Fricking NYT pay wall.

Paywall

A very interesting story. It includes the way Jews were treated after the war, I’m glad those days are behind us. But it doesn’t take long to find hate on social media and we all need to be diligent that it does not take over our society

Wow! Terrific story. thanks for posting.

Couldn't read the article. They wanted to charge me for it.

Unable to view article due to paywall barrier.

Thanks for the link to be able to read the whole article.
Fascinating life lived well in spite of racism.

Thanks for the Website Les.

I don't think you have to subscribe to read this wonderful WWII aviation story. The NYT allows reading a few articles each month without a subscription - but you have to register I think. Worth it for this...

New York Times paywall. Can't read article without subscription.

This is not the first time flight aware saw fit to feature a squawk that links to subscription required site. It is an insult to members that it does not see fit to Also Warn right up front that it is in fact nothing more than an affiliate advertisement.

Paywall garbage

“I never thought that fascism was a possible threat to our nation’s democracy until now,” Mr. Spiegel said.

How quickly society forgets, it's so sad that Right Wing fascism is front and center as proved by trumpf and ALL those supporting the repugnant agenda of anti-democracy attempting to undermine our elections AND democracy.