And bailing out and living!!!
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Dude was amazing.
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I remember as a teenager, reading "Reach for the Sky" by Paul Brickhill (Same guy who wrote The Great Escape) about him...https://www.amazon.com/Reach-sky-Douglas-legless-Britain/dp/0553118226 …
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The whole story: After the accident, with one prosthetic and one non-functioning leg threatening to ground him, Bader insisted on doctors amputating his second leg so he could get a second prosthetic and resume flying. No lie - look it up.
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If he was captured by the Germans when he was shot down ... he is not a hero in someone’s eyes. Amiright Dan?
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Germans allowed new prosthetic legs to be delivered in the POW camp.
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It is believed the missing legs allowed him to fly high-g maneuvers with less stress on his body.
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