The one that got away
At the time of the Battle of Britain in 1940 there was the famous incident
of a German pilot who had the RAF telephoned to send out a staff car to collect him and bring him back to their airfield.
Early that morning Luftwaffe Pilot - Ober/Lt Franz von Werra - posing
as the Dutch pilot of a crash landed Wellington had the RAF telephoned to send out a car to call and take him back to their airfield ! - where he got as far as sitting in the seat of the latest experimental Hurricane and about to start the engine before a revolver was pressed to his back.
Von Werra escaped two or three times and finally got back to Germany
via Canada the US and Sth America - Shot down and killed soon after.
The 1957 film ' The one that got away' - relates the fuller story.