[Pershing]

Originally Posted by Asheshouse

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Two sides to the story but the convincing money seems to be on the version that has the Fw190 taken from a captured airfield as a souvenir.

Here is an REAL STORY about TRUE stealing of enemy Не-111Н-22 by soviet prisoner Michail Devyayaev and his comrades in 8.02.1945.

Devayataev was a fighter pilot, he was shot down on his P-39 in June 1944.
He and 10 more prisoners hijacked a new He-111H-22 from Usedom airfield.
Before this Devjataev studied He-111 cockpit with crashed spare parts and watched for pre-flight actions of german pilots. Also group was preparing rather long time. In 8.02.1945 ten half-dead prisoners killed one prison guard and captured "Heinkel", board number 13013.
Not everythig went smoоthly (for example, long time they tried to take off with no success, rudders were too tight for weakened
prisoners, Devyataev didn't know where was trimmer levers - and so on), but finally they did it!
Their He-111 made belly landing at Woldenberg (now Dobiegniew) on soviet territory. By the way, Davyataev's He-111 flew with released landing gear.


6 of 10 were sent on front and were killed in action.
Michail Devyataev became Hero of Soviet Union (decorated with Golden Star) in 1957 and died in 2002

Here is more(russian)