They Mocked His “Impossible” Evasion Trick — Until One P-38 Dodged 9 Soviet Yaks Over Niš
Автор: WW2 Wings Stories
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WW2, November 1944. The skies over Yugoslavia become a trap. A lone American P-38 Lightning pilot, fuel bleeding toward empty, finds himself surrounded by nine Soviet Yak fighters over Niš. They're allies on paper, but the reality is darker—land and face months of internment while the war grinds on without you.
Intelligence said the Soviets would never fire on a friend. They were wrong about many things. With minutes of fuel remaining and nine fighters boxing him into an iron cage, the lieutenant faces an impossible choice: surrender to diplomatic imprisonment or attempt a maneuver so dangerous it defies every rule of flight. A sudden stall. A violent dive. Physics against politics. What follows is a desperate dance between aerodynamics and survival—a throttle-chopping gamble at the edge of control, a silent glide across hostile territory on empty tanks, and a final crash into shallow Adriatic waters.
This is the untold story of how one pilot's understanding of limits, mechanics, and split-second decisions turned an inevitable capture into one of WWII's most audacious escapes. Born from a grounded pilot's theoretical briefing and executed in the thin air above the Balkans, this maneuver would ripple across the theater, shifting the psychology of every intercept that followed.
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