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The Great Escape tunnels greater than thought
The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 9/10/2007
| Gary Cleland
Posted on 09/10/2007 8:44:36 AM PDT by 1066AD
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There's been a few TV docs on this topic.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:44:37 AM PDT
by
1066AD
To: 1066AD
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:47:06 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: 1066AD
I thought the sandy soil was considered too unstable to safely do any more digging. Apparently not.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:50:24 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: 1066AD; glock rocks; NormsRevenge; SouthTexas; Jim Robinson
I’m going to send this on to my brother in FResno and see what he has to add. He was a POW there after being shot down Aug 15 1944. He was a bombardier on a B17.
It may be a while before he answers me as he is probably at the Table Mountain Casino spending his taxpayer funded checks...
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:54:34 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
To: Kirkwood
I thought the sandy soil was considered too unstable to safely do any more digging. Pretty sure it was pre-OSHA.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:54:38 AM PDT
by
Timocrat
(I Emanate on your Auras and Penumbras Mr Blackmun)
To: Cincinatus
I like how the tunnel goes right under “Zah coolah”.
Yes, that’s how I hear it in my head......
Darn that Colonel Klink.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:55:18 AM PDT
by
El Sordo
To: samiam1972
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:55:44 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:59:34 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I dreamed that Horatio Hornblower was a Death Eater.)
To: 1066AD
No one was ever cooler than Steve McQueen in the movie "The Great Escape".."You'll still here, right Commandant?"...
To: BerniesFriend
The scientists are excavating the remains of Dick, after locating the entrance shaft to the famous tunnel.
Sounds like a line out of a bad p0rn movie.
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:12:02 AM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
To: 1066AD
There's been a few TV docs on this topic. And at least one six-season TV series...
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:18:23 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(John 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease.")
To: Alex Murphy
I had the opportunity to meet some of the veterans from Stalag Luft III in April. I was attending a Dead Sea Scrolls conference in Kansas City and they were having a reunion at the same place. I think it was around 80 vets there plus their families. Their health was frail and most had oxygen bottles in tow, but it was still an awesome experience to be in the presence of such heroes!
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:24:22 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: 1066AD
They couldn’t have done it without the gonkulator.
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:26:10 AM PDT
by
joebuck
To: Alex Murphy
But don’t you know there was never a successful escape from Stalag 13?
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:27:36 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: dfwgator
Watch Michael Palin's
Ripping Yarns: Escape from Stalag Luft 112 Bpart 1part 2part 3"Vogel's pressure was tremendous. Every move Phipps made was watched and controlled by guards, working sometimes eighteen or twenty hours a day. There seemed no way out....when tragedy struck. The war was over."
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:52:13 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(John 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease.")
To: BerniesFriend
The theme from The Great Escape is our ring tone. We love it!
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:52:36 AM PDT
by
FryingPan101
(Who will lead?)
To: FryingPan101
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posted on
09/10/2007 9:52:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: tubebender
Best of luck to your brother at the casino. That’s another one my wife hasn’t ran off to on a bus to play
Bingo. ;-)
Our family was lucky, they all were ground pounders in the Army in WW2,, lots less chance of getting taken POW, altho it could and did happen.. almost all of them have gone to the final muster in the hereafter.. Give your brother a big hug from all of us next time ya see him.
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posted on
09/10/2007 10:17:36 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE)
To: Alex Murphy
“I know nosh-INK, NOSH-INK...”
“VAT...ish dish man DOINK HERE?”
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posted on
09/10/2007 11:15:10 AM PDT
by
jeffers
To: 1066AD
"There they go again. Why do think Hilts and Hendley are buying up all the potatoes in camp?"
Wow! Wow! (cough, cough, cough) wow.
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posted on
09/10/2007 11:26:04 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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