12 WWII Escapes So Impossible the Enemy Couldn't Explain Them

12 WWII Escapes So Impossible the Enemy Couldn't Explain Them February 8, 1945. Usedom Island, Baltic coast, Germany. Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev, emaciated from months in concentration camps, sprinted across the tarmac of the Peenemünde military research testing site, climbed into a twin-engine Heinkel He 111 bomber belonging to the base commander, and flew it off the island with nine fellow Soviet prisoners aboard. He had never flown a German multi-engine aircraft in his life. The German High Command considered Peenemünde the most secure scientific installation in the Third Reich, surrounded by minefields, electric fences, and anti-aircraft batteries. Within twenty minutes, a group of starving slave laborers had stolen an aircraft outfitted with the Reich's secret V-2 rocket guidance telemetry.