[Stoat]

My apologies for the severe editing of this article....this was done in order to remain in compliance with Free Republic posting rules pertaining to articles from The Daily Mail.  Please click on the main article link to read the full story....quite worthwhile in my view.

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This FR thread from May 2008 may also be of interest:

Pictured Lancaster bomber in dramatic flypast to mark 65th anniversary of Dambusters raid (U.K.)

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The 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, portrayed the camp where the pilot E Taylor was held

 

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The infamous Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp where the Great Escape and Trjoan horse bids for freedom took place

 

E Taylor's diary, complete with drawings of the prisoner of war camp, will be auctioned alongside the model plane

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One poster at the Daily Mail site says that the model is actually a Halifax bomber....can anyone verify the bomber type?  Thanks!  :-)

[Stoat]

[SolidWood]

It’s definately a Halifax.

[KamchakTuchuk]

The 2 were similar in design, but that one does look more like a halifax than a lancaster, the lancaster had a longer fuselage.

[Little_shoe]

I wish I had the money to bid on it.

[tophat9000]

That not a Lancaster..it a Halifax Mk1

[End Times Sentinel]

I think, totally unsupported by any evidence, that this guy used it to show the Germans where the weak points on the Halifax were and what technological advantages we had they didn’t know about.

Nothin’ like automatically assuming the absolute worst about someone you don’t even know.

[magslinger]

This is a model made in a POW camp. Some errors may have been made in the design because the builder was working from memory and limited research resources. It carries the 100 squadron logo which flew Lancasters, so it must be intended to be a Lanc.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	This part kinda broke my heart: The model was found during a clearance sale at house in the south of England along with his prison camp diary, in which he had drawn a map of where his plane was shot down over Hungary on August 28, 1944. Thanks Stoat for posting this. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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