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TIL That an American WWII Pilot escaped from a German POW camp and after three days of evading capture, commandeered a German Folkwolf 109 and flew himself and one other American Pilot to safety in the Netherlands. He was later quoted as saying “When I saw windmills, I knew I had made it,”.

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