On 21 December 1940, the station was visited by a Dutch pilot who claimed to be Captain van Lott who had force landed in a Wellington bomber and was part of a special squadron and needed to borrow an aircraft to return to his base at RAF Dyce near Aberdeen. The pilot was in fact Franz von Werra who had escaped from the prisoner of war camp at Swanwick, Derbyshire and was subsequently arrested. A film of von Werra's exploits was made in 1957, "The One That Got Away". During early 1941, No. 1 Group Bomber Command left Hucknall for RAF Bawtry.