"Brian Colwell" wrote in message
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I guess you know he was shot down and spent time in a POW camp, And in one
of the very few examples of compassion during WW2 ( and maybe respect) The
Germans gave safe passage to an RAF plane to drop a pair of artificial
legs,
as his had been damaged when he baled out !


As I recall he left one behind in the plane as it was trapped
in the wreckage of the controls. Of course being the man
he was he immediately tried to escape on his new legs.

Keith