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A Friendly Meeting of WWII Enemies

Grace Brevard church 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, NC

On December 17, 1944, the second day of the Battle of the Bulge, American P-47 pilot Ed Cottrell's engine was shot up. In the same battle on the same day, German pilot Karl-Heinz Bosse's Messerschmidt 109 was shot down. Cottrell steered to his base and expertly managed a dead-stick landing. Bosse ejected and parachuted down […]

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