bail out an' head for the hills, then hop on the next anti aircraft gun and look up.
no, i'm not building a russian tank (don't have one in the stash). Herman the German is FUBAR talk for GI's in WWII. They refered the luftwaffe as Herman the German, after Herman Goering. By heading east, i was playing on the joke that the luftwaffe was headed to the FAR east, into the PTO, to dogfight huxy...
PHEWWWW! that was an overly complicated explanation to a simple historical joke.
You fly boys shoulda picked up on the Herman part (he is a WWI ace after all). Probably the lack of oxygen up there at 30,000 feet.