On April 11, 1941, RAF Sergeant Robert Stirling, a 23-year-old pilot, became hopelessly lost after his compass broke and fuel gauge emptied during a patrol over France. He bailed out and landed on Lihou Island, an uninhabited islet off Guernsey, which had been under Nazi occupation for nearly a year. Stirling walked across a causeway toward Guernsey, unaware that the Germans had mined the entire area. Miraculously, he walked through the minefield without detonating a single explosive. He was later discovered by local residents Tom and Myra Brouard, who sheltered him before he surrendered to German soldiers. Stirling spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Stalag IX, near Bad Orb in Germany, and only learned years later that he had walked through a minefield without knowing.
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