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...over occupied Europe, Sergeant Gunner Wissenback's Flying, Fortress went into a flat spin. Pilot and copilot had been killed. Wissenback just managed to bail out at 1,000 feet, with only the chest-straps of his parachute hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...normal ending of the story would have been capture and internment, but Wissenback was different. Hastily he folded his chute and hid it in a thick clump of weeds. Then he hid himself. What happened after that cannot be told in detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...fact, verified by Army authorities, is that Wissenback (who speaks no language but English) proceeded to wander for the next five months in Nazi-occupied territory. He was never picked up or seriously molested, and eventually he made his way back to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

During his involuntary Wanderjahr Wissenback crossed frontiers half a dozen times, rode next to German officers in trains. Once he had his picture taken with a cheerful group of Italian soldiers - he has the snapshot to prove it. Food was a problem at times, and Wissenback lived on raw fish and turnips for several days, but he was in fair shape and only a few pounds under weight when he reached his base again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Army would admit only the obvious - that he somehow got a change of clothing and faked identification papers. When traveling he played deaf-mute or pretended to be asleep to fend off the curious. The rest of Cadet Wissenback's story will have to wait: other U.S. flyers may be wandering in Europe today, using the same methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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