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Originally Posted by Richard Aigner
Frka, Novak & Pogacic"La Force Aerienne Croate 1941 - 1945", p. 302:
(the original is French, the clumsy translation mine), for 3 April 1945:
"Having escaped from a German prison at Tulln, near Vienna, 4 German aviators and 4 American POW aviators reached the airfield at Langenlebarn, where they succeeded in stealing a Ju52/3m ambulance, and took off towards the south. A gasoline mishap forced them to make a crashlanding near the village of Nin, close to Zadar, where they were captured by partisans."
Does anyone on the board know more about this? What became of the 8 aviators?
TIA, Richard
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The Keywords here are "April 1945" and "new Vienna", the war was near the end and the Russians were coming, it would not be a bad idea for German aviators to trying to go home and even better, brought some American POWs with them as safeguard.
Actually I knew as a fact, from end of 1944, more and more German soldiers deserted, they just wanted to wait out the war, in the lower countries some of these German deserters became armed bandits to sustain themselves, some of them even went over to the resistance