Another amazing POW tale

[ozzy72]

Building a camera and filming your captors takes big brass ones!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23423329

[Webb]

Oflag 17A was the biggest breakout of World War II, but with implications for all later attempts.

It meant that in 1944, 50 of the 76 Allied airmen who escaped Stalag III in Poland - we know it as The Great Escape - would be executed on Hitler's orders.

[ozzy72]

Of course Steve's character was mainly based on the mad-man and Spitfire pilot from Texas William Ash, if you've not read it get your paws on Under The Wire. I couldn't put it down! Read the book in a night it was that good!