This is the story of one of three famous WW2 bail-outs without parachutes. In 1942 I.M. Chisov of the VVS bailed from his IL-4 from 22,000 ft and hit a snow-covered slope of a ravine, allowing him to slide for a distance. He injured his pelvis and had spine damage- but survived. A year later a USAAF airman Alan E. Magee bailed from a hit B-17 from 22,000 ft and smashed throught the glass roof of the St. Nazaire railroad station. Dumbfounded German troops took him to the hospital where it tok him 3 months to recover. And then there is RAF gunner Sgt. Nicholas Alkemade that jumped 18,000 ft from his burning Lancaster bomber and hit a line of fir trees in one and a half feet of snow. Miraculously, he had only minor injuries. The Germans were going to shoot him as a spy until he showed them his snap hooks on his chute harness went unused. He became a POW...