World War II veteran Russell L. Scott, a B-25 tail gunner who was held as a prisoner of war, certainly had a story to tell about a May 25th, 1944 bombing run to Corsica

His B25 was hit, and when he tried to bail out, the escape hatch wouldn’t open, so he had to head-butt the canopy over the tail gunner’s position to get out.

Scott hit the ground awkwardly, suffering a broken back, and was immediately captured by Germans, leading to a long journey of being moved as a prisoner of war from Italy to Germany to Poland and back to Germany.

He surely saved lives in one prison camp, by transforming powdered milk cans into stovepipes so the coal stoves in each crowded room wouldn’t asphyxiate the inhabitants. 

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