[tophat9000]

I don't know about disabled Douglas Bader one of the RAF leading aces with 24 kills was a double amputee with no legs He loss his legs before the war in a flying accident and the Brit were so desperate for pilots at the beginning of World War II they reactivated him

Then after he was shot down and captured by the Germans he made like 3 escape attempts the Germans finally had to confiscate his artificial legs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader

[Snickering Hound]

Other part of the story on Bader was that after he was bailed out his artificial legs were left in his crashed aircraft and destroyed.

He and the Germans requested the Brits send his other set of legs and they did so in an air raid on the base that was holding him they dropped his other set of legs.