[AlaskaErik]

He was shot down and served 6 months in a POW camp manned by the Russians but survived.

I thought the Russians were our allies at the time. Shouldn't he have been repatriated?

[Neoliberalnot]

When he got his B-17 shot up, he was so far over East Germany he had no choice but to keep flying east. Yes, the Russians were our allies; nevertheless, his crew was kept in a hut for close to 6 months and interrogated almost daily about the details of their aircraft construction and operation.