Oh, I also looked up up the pilot who landed his plane in the sea (confusingly in the episode I thought they said he was 350 miles from anywhere, but in real life he was 90 miles from Sicily, but maybe they meant 350 miles from Allied territory), and he and most of his crew became POWs but survived the war! And then one of his crew later described it as "Van Noy shut down remaining engine and made the most beautiful landing he ever made. He never could land an Airplane except when it really counted" which makes me wish he'd been an actual character before he exited the show stage left.