After escaping from a truck in which he and other prisoners were being transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, Hibbert was sheltered by the Dutch Resistance. Most British and Polish troops who hadn't been killed, captured, or wounded in the attempt to take Arnhem were successfully withdrawn from the area, in Operation Berlin. Hibbert and other officers of the 1st Brigade regrouped and planned Operation Pegasus, by which well over one hundred sheltered men, including them, got out of the area a month thereafter. Shortly after the men crossed the Rhine, under cover of darkness, and were met by the Allied force that had been sent to retrieve them, Hibbert's leg was broken, when a jeep on whose bonnet he was riding was in a collision. The five months' hospitalisation this cost him was, in his words, a "thoroughly unsatisfying climax" to a "thoroughly unsatisfactory battle."