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shaggy99 t1_j5d5e55 wrote

Reply to comment by Senna_65 in TIL Bob Hoover, an American Spitfire pilot in WW2, was shot down over occupied France and captured but was able to escape from the POW camp 16 months later, steal a German fighter, and fly it from northern Germany to friendly territory in Holland. by MetaSatakOz

At some point in the 1990s two dickheads at the FAA managed to get his flight medical revoked. Eventually it got restored, but in the meantime The Australian aviation authority gave him a license and medical.

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