Bob Hoover survived being shot down over France, escaped a German POW camp in a stolen Focke-Wulf 190, and became the greatest airshow pilot in history.
Bob Hoover escaped a German POW camp by stealing a Focke-Wulf 190 and became the aviator that Neil Armstrong, Chuck Yeager, and Jimmy Doolittle each called the greatest they had ever seen.
Bob Hoover escaped a German POW camp in 1945 by stealing a Focke-Wulf 190 he had never flown, launching the career of aviation's greatest airshow pilot.