Here is the first victim.

Daniel Smith disappeared in 1941, at the young age of 22, while piloting a Supermarine Spitfire.

The radio told him to return. Daniel disengages his pursuit of the retreating Messerschmidt Bf 109. He didn't relax, each dogfight felt like several months and aged him several years. Every ounce of his attention was on making sure that he wasn't being followed back. The other aircraft disappeared in the distance until the dark speck was invisible against the dark night. He still kept himself tense and alert.

It took him a while to notice how the radio was too quiet.

"Woodvale Tower, this is Blue Leader. Requesting a status check. Over." Daniel calls.

Silence.

Daniel calls again, being answered only with - you guessed it - silence.

Well, Daniel was relatively close to base and was already called back anyway.

(His mind already races towards the possibility of sabotage, but he isn't going to figure out anything from this sound of the clouds.)

He descends.

You get to make a plane fly backwards when you feel like you entered the wrong situation.

(A guy he knew thought that was true. He didn't make the cut for pilot).

So, Daniel does not go back up to the sky to escape the confusion. But he is very confused by the huge ocean where Liverpool should be. Admittedly, the Irish Sea is not that far and it was in the wrong direction. That could be explained.

He can't, however, explain the island there. A huge dark shadow that couldn't be mistaken as any aircraft. Or even a ship.

Daniel takes a long circuitous route to fly over it.

Then around it.

Then, because he needs to check, he flies under it.

How to deal with a giant piece of land that is inexplicably above you is not something that Daniel has ever prepared himself to do.

It isn't exactly the actual problem, either. He needs to find a way back to the base before his fuel runs out... in maybe three hours. Great.

The radio apparently transmits, but gets nothing in return.

When he can see the stars, they look the same. It doesn't even look he changed latitude at all.

Looking for any tell-tale sign, he notes that maybe the moon is different? Hard to tell if those craters are actually different or his mind is playing tricks on him.