The Day When Mercy Was The Victor

The Day When Mercy Was The Victor

“A Higher Call” by John D. Shaw is a depiction of the events on December 20, 1943 On the morning of December 20, 1943, a young American pilot named Charlie Brown climbed into the cockpit of a B-17F Flying Fortress for what would be his first combat mission as aircraft commander. Like most other bomber pilots in World War II, Brown young: he was twenty-one, from Weston, West Virginia, and had only recently joined the 379th Bomb Group of the US Ar…