Peter Scott, a renowned naturalist and artist who had joined the navy, commanded a gunboat that had picked up both a German Luftwaffe and Norwegian RAF pilot. As he approached England, Scott went below decks to check on the fliers. The German was sitting with the ship’s cat on his lap next to the Norwegian pilot ‘who only hours before would have quite happily killed him in the air’. The German’s armed guard was sitting on the other side of his prisoner, fast asleep with his head on the pilot’s shoulder. ‘It is sights like this that makes one wonder why people go to war with each other in the
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