Name: A WWII Escape Story: US Army Air Forces 1LT Bob Hoover
Uploaded: 2025-08-01T21:00:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: On his 59th combat mission during World War II, 1LT Bob Hoover’s Spitfire was shot down over Southern France. Captured by the Germans, he spent over a year in the brutal Stalag Luft I POW camp until t

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On his 59th combat mission during World War II, 1LT Bob Hoover’s Spitfire was shot down over Southern France. Captured by the Germans, he spent over a year in the brutal Stalag Luft I POW camp until the night chaos erupted. While prisoners rioted, Hoover and two others scaled the fence and vanished into enemy territory.

Armed with only a pistol, stolen bicycles, and sheer determination, Hoover made a daring escape across war-torn Europe. But it was at an abandoned airfield where he pulled off the unthinkable, stealing a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and flying it across enemy lines without a parachute or radio.

This is the unbelievable true story of Bob Hoover—fighter pilot, POW escapee, and one of the greatest aviators of all time.

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