BRITISH LEGLESS PILOT
REPORTED BRIEF ESCAPE PRISONER OF WAR IN FRANCE (Rood. 8.40 p.m.) London, Sept. 29. It is reported from Rome that soon after receiving his new artificial leg, Wing-Commander Bader, R.A.F. pilot, who is a prisoner of war in France, escaped from a German hospital, but was recaptured four days later 100 miles from the hospital and heading for the French coast.
He escaped by climbing out of a window and using a blanket to reach the ground. The Rome report says that WingCommander Bader attempted to escape immediately the R.A.F. delivered the new leg on August 19. He slipped I away from a party held to celebrate I the arrival of the leg. The Germans. | ever since, have taken one leg away ni"ht, returning it in the morning. Wing-Commander Bader is now in a regular prison camp.—U.P.A.
Wing-Commander Bader, a legless pilot of great skill, was forced down in France during August. By arrangement with the enemy artificial legs were dropped for him by the R.A.F. and were delivered to him in hospital.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 5
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