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...night the legs arrived everyone had a big time. When the Germans captured Wing Commander Douglas Bader, D.S.O., they had been amazed at the gallantry of this boy, with no legs of his own, whose duralumin pair were crushed when his plane was shot down...
...Germans ducked the bombs, picked up the legs, turned them over to Douglas Bader and gave him a gemutlich party. Everyone had a bit to drink. Pilot Bader did wonderful feats on his tin limbs-danced, ran, turned somersaults...
After that Douglas Bader was just another prisoner-until he used his new legs in a new way. One morning his warders found knotted sheets hanging from the window of Douglas Bader's empty prison room. They found him four days and 100 miles later, walking toward the coast...
...Douglas Bader cracked up bringing an R.A.F. plane out of a slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...
Last fortnight Douglas Bader went out on another daylight sweep over France, did not come back. Last week the Berlin radio announced that Douglas Bader's plane had been shot down over the coast of France, he had bailed out, been found by the Germans, and was now a prisoner of war in Germany. When Pilot Bader parachuted to earth, he suffered no injury but some damage: one of his duralumin legs crumpled. While his pretty wife and some friends drank a champagne toast to him "wherever he was," the Luftwaffe sent a message to the R.A.F. through...