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4th March 2011, 17:13
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Re: Flight from captivity
Devyatayev got lots of press in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s because he did hard time in the Gulag as a reward for his heroism.
The Heinkel was the air-launched V-1 prototype, which set back that program. At the USAAF's base Air Depot 1 at Burtonswood, near Liverpool, an MP saw a match being lit in the cockpit of a parked B-26. Figuring its was some GIs smoking, he entered to chase them out. He found instead four Luftwaffe PoWs, escaped from a camp in the Lake District, trying to figure out how to get it started.
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