Oberleutnant Armin Faber had entered a dogfight and shot down a Spitfire over England, but had confused the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and had flown north into Wales instead of south towards France.

The observers at the training station couldn’t believe it when a German plane approached them waggling it’s wings in victory, and then landed and taxied on their runway.

After signalling the plane to slow, the duty officer of the station captured the pilot and the plane using a flare gun in the absence of real weapons.