D- CC RIDER wrote:
Douglas Bader went on to be captured after a mid air collision that severed his prosthetic right leg. In captivity he asked for his spare leg to be delivered from Great Britain and was delivered during a normal bombing run, albeit a little broken. After this the Germans took him to a hospital to recover from the injuries he had previously sustained. After the Germans gave him his leg back, he waited until no one was paying attention and simply tried to walk away. Although they caught him and sent him to many different POW camps, his cheerful defiance inspired many around him. In the end they took him to the infamous Colditz Castle. Whilst there he made so many escape attempts that the Germans took away his legs (something that caused great uproar in the ranks and POWs alike). He stayed there until the American forces liberated it in early 1945 and became a pilot for Shell.
Did you need to know all that? Probably not.