A story in the news about finding the wreckage of a Spitfire Mk I, on a mountain top in Norway, By removing the guns and armor and adding more fuel tankage what was an early war short range interceptor became a very long range photo recon plane. The British were desperate to find and confirm the location of the new battleship Tirpitz since it could decimate shipping into England with its speed and heavy long range guns. They sent this pilot into the fiords of Norway to get photos. Lt. Gunn was shot down, likely by ground anti aircraft fire, and bailed out successfully. He was, I think 20 or 22 and was a German POW in Stalag Luft which the movie THE GREAT ESCAPE was based on. He was one of the men who made it out of the tunnel, but not out of the country and was recaptured. Sadly, he was one of the 60 executed, shot by the Gestapo,may have been at Hitler's orders. Brave men, at a time that demanded them. A great movie, even if Stallone wasn't really there.