Posted on 08/17/2023 5:22:32 AM PDT by V K Lee
The award-winning, high-energy World
War II epic about a maximum-security Nazi POW camp
that three U.S. military prisoners attempt to break out
of.
Starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson,
Richard Attenborough, James Coburn.
Didn’t he do something like that in Pappillon also?
“The real great escape was all British..”
The escapees were British, Commonwealth, and foreigners serving in British military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_airmen_from_the_Great_Escape
Americans were involved in the digging of the tunnels but all were moved to another camp prior to the actual escape.
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