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pomiantoday at 12:38 AM0 repliesview on HN

Great article about the Mosquito! Thanks. That's yet another HN rabbit hole! It confirmed a friend's war story I heard, first hand - about escaping from a German POW camp near Berlin - then proceeding to Copenhagen, with the help of the Danish underground, stealing a rowboat from a German yacht, rowing to Sweden at night. The wounded one stayed in Malmo, the other two continue to Stockholm. There they went to they Polish embassy. One stayed there, the other was sent to Scotland that night in a mosquito. (Later he went to London, then dropped by parachute behind enemy lines.) Now it's the first time I read a story to verify that other first hand account! (I obviously summarized an amazing tale.)