When a bullet knocks Malik and the Captain's hot-air balloon out of the sky, Malik goes into wilderness survival mode. Actually, he's been in survival mode ever since the world fell apart. Whatever the crisis, he's always counted on the Gene Matterhorn Wilderness Survival Guidebook when things got crazy. Now he and the Captain are in the middle of miles of Kentucky wilderness, being chased by manhunters who believe hunting the weak is their post-apocalyptic duty. Malik is about to find out just how good his survival skills are.
On 12 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, in an engagement with Dornier Do 17s, Geoffrey Page was shot down into the English Channel, suffering severe burns.
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The son of the family brought a friend who explained that the Germans had discovered that local people had been assisting shot-down aircrew, and there had been some arrests. He urged Sale to give himself up, but he refused.
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'My scheme is as follows,' he said, 'first of all we firmly underline our right to shoot down any plane that violates our air space. No American plane can fly unpunished over our territory and to prove our military ...
During their stay at Falun they were able to gather information from some of the other inmates, ... The navigator was Squadron Leader Kenneth Bolton DFC, who had been shot down over Belgium in April 1943, but had managed to link up with ...
Flying Officer L. Harvey found a dinghy with five men – the sixth was the badly wounded Donley, who was lying in the bottom of the dinghy. Harvey dropped his lifeboat at 12.20 pm but it hit the sea nose down and overturned.