Col Klink's Staff Car

[MIflyer]

The Polish officers who were placed in a German POW camp were each interrogated and one explained that his excellent command of the German language was because he had attended the Mercedes factory training school before the war. "Wonderbar!" said the Germans! "You will be assigned the job of maintaining the camp commandant's Mercedes staff car!"

And carefully maintain it he did, until he managed to steal a German officer's uniform while the camp tailors produced a copy of a German enlisted uniform. And one day the Mercedes mechanic and another Polish POW simply donned their fake uniforms, got in the staff car and drove to Switzerland.

No word available on if they got to keep the car.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man I so hope that's true!

 

[MIflyer]

It was told to me by a friend who was in that POW camp.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's awesome!

 

[swampyankee]

The Polish officers who were placed in a German POW camp were each interrogated and one explained that his excellent command of the German language was because he had attended the Mercedes factory training school before the war. "Wonderbar!" said the Germans! "You will be assigned the job of maintaining the camp commandant's Mercedes staff car!"

And carefully maintain it he did, until he managed to steal a German officer's uniform while the camp tailors produced a copy of a German enlisted uniform. And one day the Mercedes mechanic and another Polish POW simply donned their fake uniforms, got in the staff car and drove to Switzerland.

No word available on if they got to keep the car.

This is as at least as good as Bob Hoover's theft of an FW190 to complete his escape.

 

[MIflyer]

There was an RAF Beaufort crew based in Malta that was shot down while attacking a German convoy over near Italy. They were rescued by a German seaplane and taken to the seaplane base, on small remote island. They spent the night there and the next morning were loaded on a seaplane to be flown to the Italian mainland.

After takeoff they overpowered the German crew and pointed the seaplane toward Malta. Approaching the island, they were intercepted and shot down by RAF Spitfires. Rough couple of days, there. Shot down twice, once by each side.

 

[Capt. Vick]

I know for a fact that a British crew shot down in the med were picked up by an Italian float plane, overpowered them and flew it to somewhere under British control, possibly Malta. Even took a picture with the now interned Italian crew...they didn't look too unhappy.