The Allied Prisoner of War that Stole a German Bomber in WWII - A True Story

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When Mikhail Devyataev was captured and put into a concentration camp, instead of sitting by, he conspired to actually steal a German He-111 bomber from his camp commander in one of the most amazing stories of World War II. This was made using the World War II flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles series. Hope you enjoy! Please like, comment, and subscribe.
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[@TJ3]

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[@gilbertjamessalud3145]

Hey tj3 make another historical video about a enemy bf109 spared a b17 bomber please?

[@robertswisher6501]

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[@brokenbridge6316]

I'm glad this guy ultimately got honored like he deserves.

[@bigblue6917]

There was a Soviet submarine captain who sank a German ship during WW2 but because he had a bad reputation because he lacked discipline he was never credited with it.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@bigblue6917---That ship was a Cruise Liner---The Wilhelm Gustlav. Their was no protest over this because it took place in the shadow of the end of WWII. Where tragedy with loss of life was veyr common.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

At least Klink didn't have a plane Hogan and his guys could, umm, borrow.

[@abandonedaccount123]

that was amazing! RIP to the crew who didn't make it :(

[@Skyfighter64]

You know, it's stories like these that lead me to believe "Hogan's Heroes" is a LOT closer to reality than most people are willing to believe...

[@gehleygamer1491]

This is a really good video great quality good detail, easy to understand

[@TJ3]

Glad you liked it!

[@Andy_1961]

Danke!

[@rbs8091]

Commies being Commies, no matter where they are from.

[@atomictime9410]

Damn...they should have flown towards the U.S. lined

[@thisismagacountry1318]

You know NORD VPN was HACKED,...Riiiggghhhttt?

[@fredsalfa]

That’s incredible. If he was American returning to American lines he would have been hailed a hero straight away

[@dovidell]

Stalin had a very different opinion of combatants who were taken prisoner , that's why he had the barrier troops to stop retreats - see Stalin’s Order No. 227: “Not a Step Back” .anyone who escaped captivity , MUST have had help from the enemy

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

@@dovidell In simpler words... Stalin was dumb in that aspect.

[@robertwilliamson6121]

Same if he had been British and flew the German Heinkel HE 111 back to British lines. Hero right away. The commies were like the Nazis. Never trusted their own.

[@matthewstorer8236]

@@robertwilliamson6121 To be honest. The British would have downed him in the Channel. Not busting on the British at all. Just being honest. A single He-111 over the English Channel would have been a sitting duck.

[@TheIndianalain]

There's actually an American pilot who did nearly the same thing. Bruce Carr, a P51 pilot, was shot down over nazi territory but he avoided being captured. After a few days he discovered a german airbase and manage to reach a parked, ready-to-fly FW190. At dawn he started the engine, took off completely unnoticed and set course at treetop level to his base where he belly-landed to avoid being shot at by his own flak... and also because he couldn't find the command to lower the wheels!

[@coling3957]

there is another story of British pows overpowering the crew of an Italian plane and flying back to Allied lines.. perhaps the first hijacking of an aircraft in history..... The Russian pows helping the pilot escape would have the satisfaction of knowing they were helping one guy why they likely faced severe punishment - prob death. which hardly mattered as Soviet pows were considered "former Soviet citizens" by Stalin and those that survived German captivity often found themselves sent to gulags upon "liberation" later in the war.

[@joelonzello4189]

I read that story of British overpowering Italian crew. Think it was in a book called A History of the RAF. Had a copy decades ago...

[@fanatamon]

That Stalin what a stain to sending his own countrymen to a gulag epic germ.

[@vernwallen4246]

@@fanatamon Stalin had extreme paranoia .Per example he had a lot of his generals shot.😜😜😜

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

Mark Felton made a video about this incident.

[@joeyoung4121]

I sold vacuum's door to door in the 80s &90s I have met men that were pilots telling me the stories of being shot down captured by the Germans & held till the end of the war. Also a man who landed at D-day. Many of them had some very good Tales to tell.

[@rbilleaud]

German POWs had it good. After the U.S. entered the war, some of them found themselves in the U.S. and were put to work doing manual labor. One group was housed in the little town of Broussard, LA, and their job was tending and harvesting the sugar cane crop. It was hot and dirty work, but apparently they preferred that to a cold and dirty war back home. The people treated them decently and the food was good. Some of them enjoyed their stay and actually moved back into the area with their families at the end of the war.

[@andrewbranch4918]

Awesome. I knew when he got home he would be viewed as a criminal as soon as he managed to pinch the plane, even before you said so. Glad he survived and was recognised.👍

[@TJ3]

Thanks for watching guys! Historical notes - some of the visuals shown are not perfectly accurate, but I have done my best to make them as close as possible! Wish I could give my He-111 crew prisoner uniforms but unfortunately that isn't a feature of my flight sim lol. I thought this was one of the coolest stories of World War II! Hope you guys enjoyed it.

[@diegok2245]

Excellent vid

[@TJ3]

Thanks!

[@youdontneedtoknow6621]

I don’t know how you got all this documentary footage of all these incredible events

[@MothaLuva]

@@youdontneedtoknow6621 Secret collaboration with Mark Felton 😂

[@jeffhallel8211]

@@MothaLuva Reminds me of Marks story about the Polish Underground recovering a V-2 and sending it to Britain.

[@deepsea5107]

Great video! Glad to see that the USSR finally honored him. Have you ever heard of a US airshow performer named Robert Anderson (aka Bob) Hoover? He also was a POW held in Germany and stole an aircraft to escape. He has quite a life story!

[@Greg-yu4ij]

Yes! I found this story after his. So tragic how his buddies were crushed by an atmosphere of perpetual paranoia. At least a few brave men fought for him to end his treatment as a criminal and finally recognize his brilliant escape.

[@michaelpielorz9283]

No wonder the germans lost the war because so many planes were stolen by POW`s has nobody counted those stories ?

[@rachaelknight8048]

so what tom cruise stole an f14 to escape lol

[@palemale2501]

This mistrust and criminalization by the Soviet government of captured Russian soldiers and civilians was absolute - they usually served time in prisons or gulags, especially if the western allies had liberated them, so they had had a taste of the west - Stalin was the worst monster of the 20th century - he personally signed individual death sentences on 40,000 Rusian civilians, senior soldiers and politicians even before WW2.

[@rishz7857]

Mistrust was due to "exposure" to real life outside of communist control, no matter how little that exposure was.

[@fishingmasterstudios9481]

isnt Communism wondeerrrffulll? ;D ( sarcasim )

[@palemale2501]

At least you knew where you stood with Stalin - often against a wall blindfolded.@@fishingmasterstudios9481

[@jesseanderton2]

The museum in Dayton is truly fantastic. Been to many museums and this is one of if not the best IMO

[@StarflightProductions]

Now he needs to do an episode about Bruce Carr, the P-51 pilot who stole an FW-190 from behind enemy lines

[@bigblue6917]

The only German to successfully escape back to Germany, Franz von Werra, tried to take a British aircraft but was captured while sat in the cockpit. Unfortunately for him he died when his aircraft suffered engine failure and he crashed into to North Sea. There was the crew of a British aircraft who not only escaped in an enemy aircraft but were probably the first people to hijack an aircraft. They were being transferred in an Italian flying boat and they overpowered the Italian crew. So instead of them ending up in an Italian POW camp the Italians ended up in a British POW camp. They did feel bad about it as the Italians had looked after them treating them very well.

[@SpidaMez]

imagine being such a neo nazi, u say unfortunately to a nazi dying

[@thisismagacountry1318]

@@SpidaMez The rank and file soldiers were rarely true Nazis. Merely German citizens in the Armed Forces.

[@SpidaMez]

@@thisismagacountry1318 sure

[@NoSTs123]

@@SpidaMez Everybody is a human being.

[@stelleratorsuprise8185]

Franz von Werra successfully escaped from a POW camp in Canada to the US that was neutral at this time, he returned to Germany. Later he was flying again for the Luftwaffe when his engine failed on an observing mission, he ditched into the north sea and drowned. For the question if v. Werra was a Nazi or not, he joined the Nazi party very early ... there could be some excuses for this but it was a fact.

[@rolandrodriguez3854]

Communism is wonderful isn't it? Lol!

[@donaldgrant9067]

Just goes to prove anything is possible in war. It's a pity the brass didn't think so.

[@COACHWARBLE]

Can you do a video on the USS TWIGGS? My uncle died on the ship off Okinawa. Nobody has ever done a video or featured it in anything. Fletcher class destroyer with 4 battle stars. Vincent Grella from Brooklyn was his name.

[@kevinmalone3210]

Great story, if only they could've landed in Allied territory. It would've spared him years of being inprisoned.

[@mediterraneandiet2483]

Amazing story. Glad that he received the thanks he deserved in the end.

[@amyrichard3203]

The Russians trusted no one and imprisoned countless soldiers after the war, who had been captured. A brutal country. That bomber should have been flown to England. But they still would have been sent back to Russia after the war, to a dismal fate.

[@WallabsFR]

Incredible how stubborn the soviet hierarchy was during WW2

[@tompage6421]

Nothing much has changed then...

[@matthewstorer8236]

An amazing story I never heard of. Thank you TJ3 History. This guy had absolute balls of steel!

[@antartis73]

The pronunciation of Sachsenhausen was badly wrong although it’s not easy I’ll give you that and the name of the secret missile site is Peenemünde which is easier to pronounce (Pee-ne-mu-nde) but no attempt was made. 5 prisoners were originally planning to escape but in the end apparently another 5 joined them. Devyatayev had three attempts to start the He-111 engines before he was successful using a battery that was brought by another prisoner. After take-off, the plane was heavily reeling because for a while Devyatayev could not manage the steering alone. Only after a detailed study of the instruments of the plane did he find the reason. The wheel of the elevator trimmer was in the position for landing, not flying. After adjusting the trimmer, aircraft control became possible by himself. In the process of gaining altitude, enemy fighter planes were observed taking off to intercept them. However, thanks to dense clouds, the fighters lost sight of the stolen He-111. After leaving the clouds, Devyataev’s group flew eastward, and then to the south, according to their only map. Soviet troops presumably were stationed there. After crossing the Baltic coast, 300-400 kilometers from the takeoff site, the aircraft was subjected to firing. The fire was conducted by Soviet anti-aircraft artillery and the right wing was damaged and two people were injured. Mikhail Devyataev decided to make a hard landing on a snow-covered field. After landing, escaped prisoners were taken by soldiers of the 61st Soviet Army. The escape of Devyataev’s group received a huge response. The abducted aircraft was equipped with special equipment, which guided the course of the V-2 rocket. On February 13th, 1945 Goering arrived on the island of Usedom and ordered the execution of the chief of the airbase and commandant of the camp. According to one version, Hitler overruled this order. According to another version, they avoided the death sentence because they lied that they caught up to and shot down the plane. Devyataev and his team were placed in a camp of the NKVD. There they were repeatedly interrogated. As a result, it was decided to return them to serve in the Red Army. Thanks to the report of Devyataev in March 1945, Soviet troops occupied the island of Usedom. Soviet experts were then sent to study German missile technology. In September 1945, Devyataev assisted the chief Soviet ballistic missile designer, Sergei Korolev. He took part in the creation of the first Soviet R-1 rocket based on V-2. On August 15, 1957, at the request of Sergei Korolev, Mikhail Devyatayev received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. This information is found in Deyatayev’s book ‘Escape from Hell’. Where did you find your info from?

[@mojoneko8303]

Thanks. Sounds like you read the book. : ) He mentioned that a movie was made about this as well but he didn't say what the name was or if it's available with subtitles on a streaming service or not. Is the movie the same name? Escape from Hell? I will read this book if I can find it on Amazon.

[@TJ3]

I have been unable to find the movie in anything but Russian. It is Escape from Hell V2

[@antartis73]

@@mojoneko8303 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2WqcqiDj7x6p68 I tried to reply with links from the web but KZbin take them down. Sorry about that. The link above is from the Russian film about the story

[@antartis73]

@@mojoneko8303 kzbin.info/www/bejne/laucaWymq76YgKc and the He-111 sequence

[@antartis73]

@@mojoneko8303 I have found the title and publishing house for you; Title : Escape from hell. Mikhail Devyatayev. Mordovian book publishing house. 1985\Pobeg iz ada. Mihail Deviataev. Mordovskoe knijnoe izdatelstvo. 1985 g., n/a, 1985 by n/a Edition: 1st Edition

[@petergregory8864]

His treatment by the Authorities a clear case of systemic idiocy. Reminds me of Bob Hoovers story. At wars end in Barth Stalagluft One camp. Prisoners were told to stay in the camp when the guards left, as the Russians might think escaping prisoners were German. Bob Hoover ignored the warnings. Left the camp. Got to an airfield. Commandeered a fighter plane, might have been a 109, can't remember exactly. And flew to Sweden. Barth is on the Baltic coast of Germany. My Dad was a bomber Pilot in that same Prisoner of War Camp. He waited for the rescuers to arrive.

[@ALLROY240]

If he was British or American and escaped back to his own side of the lines, they would have hailed him a hero immediately, not thrown him and his colleagues in jail or put them in a cannon fodder fighting unit.

[@netherwolves3412]

I’ve been to the museum in Dayton, but sadly I was too young to appreciate the aircraft or know what I was looking at 😆

[@oldcremona]

02:36 The Soviets had American P-39's just 2 days after the German invasion? I know we sold them planes to fight the Germans but I thought that came a bit later.

[@mikehartman5326]

Meanwhile the Soviets also never figured out why the Germans let him go and what was his plan. Aw just send him to prison. Talking about bad luck.

[@wmden1]

Great video. Thanks. That was terrible that they were considered criminals and suspected as spies. I guess the criminal part was considered them not fighting to the death, getting interned in a German prison camp, and escaping. With the valuable information about the V1 and V2 rockets, that would have been serious evidence that they were telling the truth. The Nazies would not have let any of that information get into the hands of any enemy, on pain of death for the one with the information, if caught, much less given any information through one of their spies. Neither circumstance makes good sense.

[@leomduffy794]

Stalin was just as bad if not worse than Hitler. Stalin's purges and how he ran the Soviet union. Thankfully they did a destalinization. After Stalin's death things got better.

[@wmden1]

@@leomduffy794 Agreed.

[@DavidCurrey4]

The Soviets weren't much better than the Japanese when their own soldiers/aircrew were captured by the enemy. If they escaped from a POW camp or were returned after hostilities (such as after the several Soviet wars with Finland), they were either executed are sent to fight where they were not expected to survive. In WWII, the USSR was the pits, and just one minuscule notch below the savagery and brutality of the Japanese. Russia is proving that today in the Ukraine.

[@srfrg9707]

Badass pilot escapes from german PW camp on a german plane. URSS : Personnal initiative outside of the line of the Party? Send him to the Gulag!

[@Sugarsail1]

Stalin was so paranoid, he doesn't even recognize his own pilot when he escaped German hands. Derp.

[@MothaLuva]

I tried this the other way round a couple years ago with a B-17. Didn’t go well. But it crashed (without me) about 2 years ago so I was sort of lucky.

[@mikescarborough9196]

I just watched a reasonably good Russian movie called T-34 about Russian POW's that stole one of their captured tanks and drove to freedom. So this is what would have really happened under Stalin.

[@niranjankumthekar981]

You r making very very good content Brother, It's easy to understand the events and conditions,keep making a lot of stuff like this!,keep making,keep Growing ❤️👍🏻

[@keesvandenbroek331]

Typically sovjet. And they still think Stalin was a good leader!. Btw, there is that other story of that pilot escaping from a POW camp by plane: Bob Hoover, who escaped and partially moved around in a FW190 (as I recall) but landed short of the line for fear of being shot down! Happened in the last days of rhe war in Europe.

[@joedias7946]

This man should be a hero in any of the countries fighting Hitler. I think we should celebrate him as our hero.

[@nickfraser4599]

Awesome individual. Wonder what happened to the Kommandant...

[@terrancenorris9992]

Typical Soviet Union behavior. They didn't even trust each other. Nothing has changed in 77 years, they are the SAME way today....

[@ralphghost820]

Hey bro you have a really good visuals on videos kindly make a video on wing commander Grewal and group captain Dilip parurkar from Indian air force 1971 war escapes itz my request

[@mengxizhang7506]

NKVD: How you managed to escape? Devyataev: Well comrades… I stole a nazi plane…… NKVD: ? Devyataev: ……and not some regular plane, it's a He-111H-22 Bomber, the test bed for nazi's newest weapon, the air-launching V-1 rocket (FGZ-76). NKVD: ?? Devyataev: I took it off from Peenemünde, the well-defended top secret base for V-series weapon. NKVD: ??? Devyataev: Despite the ground fire and air petrol of nazi and red army, I pilot the plane cross the frontline safely…… NKVD: ???? Devyataev: ……together with other 10 comrades, unscathed. NKVD: ???????? Devyataev: I can bring you valuable information, which gonna end the war faster and give our motherland adventage on……maybe the future space program. NKVD: NO KIDDING.

[@mikeriv60]

Hahahahaha typical commie BS. He would have been better off trying to fly all the way to the American lines 🤣

[@jeep146]

The choice to die in combat with your own troops or die of starvation or beaten to death by the Germans. The Soviets were very hard on anyone who they thought aided the enemy. Even keeping any dropped German propaganda could get you a court martial.

[@emitindustries8304]

His treatment by his own army after escape is typical of Stalinist Communism. Returning pows from Germany were sometimes considered to be cowards, or worse, traitors, because they didn't die for their country, and allowed themselves to be captured. Many of them were sent to Gulags in Siberia, to be worked to death in sub-zero conditions. Surviving a battle, then surviving capture, and finally surviving imprisonment by your own people, damn... if that didn't make you tough!!!

[@brentsummers7377]

There is a photo of RAF pilot Douglas Bader sitting in a German fighter plane. Also shown in the photo is a German officer holding a Luger pistol in case Bader tried to steal the plane!

[@missingthe80s58]

Pretty much universal for all pilots, flying east into the USSR was flying into a black hole. You stopped existing.

[@patricklemire9278]

The communists treated their returned pow’s awfully.

[@JJW77]

TJ, we love your detail presentations on your videos. Could you do one on Al Levy's unit, the 288th Field Artillery Observation Battalion that avoided the massacred at Malmedy on 12-17-44. My father was in the 288, he would never talk about it. After his passing, we found paper works pertaining to his ties to the 288... Family and friends (over 120 folks) are on pins and needles to hear your detail through research account on it. Many thanks!!!

[@TJ3]

I'll take a look! No promises but I will look into it!

[@JJW77]

@@TJ3 Thank you for your prompt reply. We have the history down pad on the the sister unit 285 through writings, films, videos... It would be great to have you bring the 288 alive for us WWII history buffs. According to family members and founded paperworks, early in WWII our father worked on the British merchant marines convoys supplying war materials to England. During 2 separate occasions the British ships were torpedoed by German submarines. After escaping death twice, he jumped the 3rd ship in NY. The US government caught up with him and he was inducted into the Army April 1943. Dad served in General Patton's 3rd Army...was then sent back to Europe to fight on land. He participated in the liberation of Paris, Dachau, and met up with the Russian army along the Elbe River. We are gratefully/eagerly wait to hear your research on Al Levy's unit - the 288th Field Artillery Observation Battalion. TJ, again much thanks!!!

[@josephphoenix1376]

Sadly....Typical Soviet Paranoia& Suspicions almost made this story a complete disaster!😠

[@paulcosgrove6160]

Before I comment I would like to thank my parents for having me, my schools for teaching me to write and spell and to understand the contents of videos like this. Now the embarrassingly bad introduction is over, good video thanks.

[@jeffreyhagelin5927]

Don't forget Bob Hoover, that famous acrobatic and fighter test pilot . He was another P.O.W. who escaped by flying a German FW-190 to a safe landing to friendly lines.

[@NoSTs123]

These german built planes are so easy to use, that apperently anyone can!

[@pilotdave1000]

Didn't they come out with a movie about this pilot recently? 🤔

[@gilwhitmore9682]

Russia never ceases to amaze me, often for the wrong reasons.....

[@mikekrypel4771]

Can’t wait to see this movie … V2 escape from hell, it’s a new Russian movie about that pilot who pulled of that feat

[@josephryan9230]

Interesting that you used "Allied" rather than "Russian" pilot in the title. Deliberate, no doubt. I suspect your viewership for this particular video would have dropped considerably otherwise.

[@bobgreene2892]

Lots of careful work on the graphics, with a nice touch of authenticity when the pilot's Bell Airacobra landing gear collapsed, bending the propeller. The narrative shows good research, too, with the NKVD "misadventure" in full detail. We ThumbedUP and subscribed.

[@SumFarmerDude]

Just wait until he finds out it's a video game

[@jordanrichards4109]

Stalin was an absolute monster even by today's standards

[@engineerauthorpilot]

Great story. The only trouble I had with it is the assumption that the pilot struggled with his take off and landing. Given the fact that the pilot was a skilled fighter pilot, I'm pretty certain he had no trouble taking off and landing (I've flown many aircraft myself over the past 40 years. Once you're a skilled pilot, transitioning to other aircraft is fairly easy). Sounds to me that that Russian had enough courage in him to overcome just about anything.

[@paulmurphy42]

All the placards would have been in a foreign language and alphabet...how on earth did he figure out the starting procedure in what must have been a couple of minutes?

[@engineerauthorpilot]

@@paulmurphy42 You're right: it probably DID take him a couple of minutes to figure out what switches he needed to start the plane. Throttle, propeller, landing gear, etc, are easy to locate. It's the avionics and system's switches that almost certainly slowed him down. Such a shame his own countrymen took YEARS to acknowledge his feat.

[@paulmurphy42]

@@engineerauthorpilot Thanks for your reply...if anyone else can add anything, please do so here!

[@slugnaholowaa7406]

Soviet union leadership was insane.

[@RoaroftheTiger]

hmm ? His 1st Air Victory, was Two Days after the German Invasion of Russia. (Operation Barbarossa) That being said, the Russians were yet to become part of the Allied effort. So Why is this Pilot shown, flying an American Made - P-39 "Airacobra" ???

[@blindingshadow3463]

I saw allied and thought good guys.

[@Gwaithmir]

It's too bad he wasn't able to fly that plane to England.

[@steffannystad]

Hi, when are you going to the museum? If you are interested, i could probably get you in contact with an air force historian there that could give you a personal tour of the museum.

[@gildavis8266]

This is a job for Ron Howard to direct a full blown movie about this wonderful adventure!

[@FJF119]

would consider using storyline for a movie ........REALLY

[@cortomaltese9401]

Nice vid, Can you please give the titles of the soundtrack you used? Can't find it anywhere, thx!

[@jimm6095]

The Soviets did not consider the western democracies to be "allies" and never referred to themselves as "allies"!

[@Algedibarrios]

Mikhail Petrovich Devyataev

[@hades0572]

I was the German fighter pilot that shot his Airacobra down, I was 14 days old back then... Ahh to be young again.

[@leomduffy794]

For the most part the us and British pow in German captivity were treated better than the Soviet soldgers. It was pretty much death if you were a Russian pow caught by the Germans. Its amazing that some did survive being a soviet pow in 1941 till 1945. Only to get put in a soviet gulag because of Stalin's orders. The Soviet union sufferd worse than any country in ww2. Then they had to deal with Stalin Russians are some of the toughest people ever.

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Sounds too good to be true. For one, I don't think the Germans would have parked any aircraft so close to a prison camp, with POW pilots in it, without some security measures like rendering the ignition off. Also, the landing strip would have had machinegun nests at both ends to put off any enemy planes from landing or taking off in a possible commando attack. There would also have been AA guns placed around the perimeter. Then there is the likelyhood of learning the cockpit layout and controls of a totally alien aircraft within minutes, and in cold weather - getting the mixture right and warming up the engines. More like one of many 'War hero' propaganda stories the soviets were known to put out during the war.

[@kristoffermangila]

Now that can be called GTB: Grand Theft Bomber!

[@aaronmiller5012]

For a purpose though. Gotta survive and escape somehow. Like Top Gun Maverick when he and rooster stole an f14 to escape the enemy base.

[@Hyype]

Not sure how else I could have expected a nation led by a disastrous ideology to treat heroes. Thrown them straight to prisons and on suicidal frontlines. I’m glad the Soviet Union died off.

[@kaszaspeter77]

Guardians? Maybe Guards? Also, the NKVD was not the Interior Ministry, look it up. Nice graphics, sloppy writing.

[@FleetAdmiralDouglas]

All Soviet POWs captured during the war were to be considered criminals to attempt to prevent any surrendering and encourage fights to the death. "There are no Soviet prisoners of war. Only traitors." - Joseph Stalin

[@patrickgreiner4288]

The shame of communism

[@maverick744]

Regardless of the outcome the Soviet government should be ashamed of themselves and those involved in vilifying those hero’s should have been jailed at the least. That would not have happened in the US,, they would have been treated as hero’s. Such a brave and courageous group of men to have been treated like criminals makes me sick.

[@andrewkamoha4666]

[Title] "The Allied Prisoner of War that Stole a German Bomber" Tom Cruise? Maverick?

[@leemichael2154]

Missed a few points? When they realised they needed a battery tray to hook up and start the engine's it took an unbearable 15 mins to find another plus when he tried to pull back on the stick he had lost so much muscle he couldn't do it so all near had to help him pull it back thus taking off, as they took off they sang the international! Otherwise good job

[@Starrsy4]

When corruption is soaked through your government, you can do no good. You will be punished for any good deeds. Such is the nature of all governments in the world today.

[@charlespragnell3163]

I do like more more information and fax about stuff before kind of publish it but you know do your thing because she puts a question mark on top my heads and another thanks and good luck moving forward

[@wawa8408]

An idea. LOT - Polish Airlines. Or Landing On Tempelhof. Try in AN-2.

[@flimsyjimnz]

Mikhail Devyataev. Movie is *V2 - Escape From Hell* (2021) -see the trailer here on YT.

[@jurgschupbach3059]

guud they being penalized no discipline and talking fairytales..... . always be a hero ok

[@danm7298]

Watched 7 30 22

[@lordkreigs1978]

I know a lot of stories that had not been widely publicized and once again you surprised me with a new one that I had no idea of. Thank you for your page I really enjoy it.

[@MalquiLans]

This is the 3rd vid of yours I've seen. Excellent work. Smart guy :)

[@emmettluketic4163]

The illegal sidecar concurrently practise because title internationally obtain but a milky banana. tasty, mammoth puffin

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

Mark Felttons production must see this Actual Real WW2 Movie.

[@Luckyrider1958]

WW2... Hitler? Psycho Stalin? Psycho... Tojo? Psycho..... that is all.

[@madmanmechanic8847]

He would of had phone numbers of the base he was from and contact names for officers they could of verified it and addresses of family in Russia this doesnt add up

[@PavelAVasilevich]

In Russia they made a movie at this Soviet pilots escape....movie is called "Devetaev"

[@GeeBee909]

This is something Colonel Hogan would do for sure

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

The Comic Commando must create a Comic about this Brave Soviet Russian WW2 pilot daring escape from captured German camp back to Russia.

[@albertatherepublic8907]

This is what happens in Communist countries glade he made out alright though. 👍