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Another amazing POW tale

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:49 am
by ozzy72
Building a camera and filming your captors takes big brass ones!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23423329

Re: Another amazing POW tale

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:26 pm
by 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.


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Re: Another amazing POW tale

PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:40 pm
by 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!