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Why two pilots who should have been dead started hunting Germans in total darkness — flying a plane they named "Borrowed Time." This World War 2 story reveals how absolute trust between pilot and radar operator changed everything about night combat.

March 1945. First Lieutenant Herman Ernst, pilot of a P-61 Black Widow, pushed through absolute darkness over the German border. His radar operator, Lieutenant Edward Kopsel, watched a green scope in a separate compartment, calling targets Ernst could never see. Both men shared something no other crew had — each was the sole survivor of a separate aircraft accident that killed everyone else on board. Every instinct said a pilot should see his target. Every expert said blind firing was reckless.

They were all wrong.

What Ernst and Kopsel discovered wasn't about technology. It was about trust — complete, absolute faith in a voice calling vectors through darkness. On one night over Germany, that trust would be tested like never before. Multiple contacts. Friendly fire. And targets that kept appearing on radar faster than they could engage them.

The 422nd Night Fighter Squadron became the top-scoring American night unit of the war. But what Ernst and Kopsel achieved that night set a record that no other American crew in Europe would match.

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