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Welcome to Beyond the Call, where history, leadership, and heroism come alive. Today’s episode shares the extraordinary story of First Lieutenant Donald Joseph Gott, whose final flight over Germany in nineteen forty four became a lasting testament to courage and selflessness. Against impossible odds, with his B Seventeen bomber crippled by enemy fire and three crew members gravely wounded, he refused to abandon them—choosing instead to steer his burning aircraft toward safety, knowing it would almost certainly cost him his life.

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