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Gunther Pluschow was the lone German Air Force pilot at Tsingtao in the opening days of World War I. He shot down a Japanese aircraft with his pistol, escaped by air when the siege of Tsingtao was nearing the end, made his way to Shanghai on foot, from there by sea to San Francisco, traversed the continent to New York, boarded a ship bound for Italy, captured by the British at Gibraltar, sent to a POW camp in England, and ultimately became the only German POW in either war to escape from England and make it all the way back to Germany. Just an amazing series of feats. And you can read it all in his own words:

https://archive.org/stream/myescapefrom ... 9/mode/2up

After the war he traveled through Patagonia by sea and land, later returning with a seaplane to be the first to explore Tierra del Fuego from the air. An incredible individual.
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One of those "truth-is-better-than-fiction" stories.
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What an incredible adventurer!!!
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ORIGINAL: Kull

An incredible individual.

He must have been!

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Thanks Kull for finding this....
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It is very interesting to see how different countries and their people were viewed even in 1922. Not to mention how the different class structures at the time were still entrenched.
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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

It is very interesting to see how different countries and their people were viewed even in 1922. Not to mention how the different class structures at the time were still entrenched.

It really is something of a shock to read a first person account from that period - the innate racism and cultural biases are light years away from the current norms. It doesn't really detract from the story - most of the adventures would stand out as amazing in any era - but there are occasional comments and descriptions that make your hair stand on end!
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Nice.

In same vein i always found the life of this guy difficult to believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart
Served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.

Just the WWI:

In an attack upon an enemy fort at Shimber Berris, Carton de Wiart was shot twice in the face, losing his eye and also a portion of his ear. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 15 May 1915.

He was wounded seven more times in the war, losing his left hand in 1915 and pulling off his fingers when a doctor declined to remove them.[14] He was shot through the skull and ankle at the Battle of the Somme, through the hip at the Battle of Passchendaele, through the leg at Cambrai, and through the ear at Arras

Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."

Then much more adventures that can be read at link from Polish-Soviet War to Second World War, including the Pacific.


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