re: Have you ever known a fighter pilot that was shot down….

Knew a pilot on a B26 shot down over Germany. He landed in a field with a broken leg and the local citizens ran up to him with clubs, pitchforks, etc to kill him, as they were pissed that he was bombing their country. A German Army patrol made it to him just in time and held off the citizens at gunpoint, and took him to a POW camp. He and one other of his crew survived the war.