02/08 – Devyatayev’s Great Escape

A Heinkel HE 111 light bomber like the one Mikhail Devyatayev and his comrades stole in 1945. (Flickr) On this day in 1945, Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyatayev and 9 others escaped from a Nazi labour camp located in the Baltic Sea. Shot down over the Eastern Front in 1944, Devyatayev was captured by German…