Paula's Flight by Anne Frank

Despite her daring, Paula was often cowardly and afraid, though sometimes she could be unexpectedly brave, so that no one was able to predict which of these two opposites was going to come to the fore. This time she was extraordinarily brave, because, after they had flown for a while, she suddenly crawled out from under the bench and, to the infinite astonishment of the crew, introduced herself and told them how she got there. The crew discussed what they should do with Paula and decided that they had no choice but to keep her with them. They told her that they were on their way to Russia to bomb the enemy lines.

Sighing, she lay down on a bench and went to sleep. Bang-bang, boom-boom. Paula sat up immediately and stared wide-eyed at the crew. No one had time to deal with her, though, because the Russians were shooting fast and furiously at the enemy aircraft. Suddenly. Paula screamed, the benches shook and the windows rattled as a couple of shells slammed into the plane and sent it into a nosedive, so that they were forced to make an emergency landing.