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Pilot Spares American Bomber Crew

Fire the "Pilot Spares American Bomber Crew" event in Hearts of Iron IV with the console command event wuw_GER_military_events.2.

Pilot Spares American Bomber Crew

Country event

Fire this event with the event command and the event ID wuw_GER_military_events.2.

What happens

Following intensive bombing raids of our military industry an unlikely story has surfaced. Despite clear orders to bring every enemy plane violating our airspace down, one fighter pilot has refused to do this. The pilot, one Franz Stigler, came across a crippled bomber just after a bombing raid and elected to not open fire upon it. He justifies his actions by stating that the crippled bomber was no different than men in parachutes, and that shooting at them would be just as abhorrent. After initially attempting to communicate with the bomber crew to have them land in Germany and surrender, or at least head to neutral territory, Stigler gave up on these decent efforts, and instead escorted the enemy bomber to safety. Franz Stigler is a talented pilot, but allowed to continue like this, he and his defiant actions, might cause us issues.

Player choices

When this event fires, Pilot Spares American Bomber Crew presents these options:

  • We'll let him live, but this cannot be repeated!
  • Make an example out of him!
  • Not one word about this.