“The Americans played no part in the escape.”
Pal, the only reason ANY of you ‘escaped’ was due to America’s involvement. And by the way, we made the movie, so we’ll put Steve McQueen in there if we feel like it, and you can deal with it. You would have long since been dead in a Hitler camp.
The movie would never have had success without glameration and Hollywood big name actors, I just saw it awhile ago on TCM.
I saw a special on the making of the movie. It said that 98% of the movie was accurate and thet athe Steve McQueen movie scene was put in for one reason.
Steve was the hottest actor at the time and he loved motorcycles- that is how they got him to be in movie by writng that scene in for him
Pal, the only reason ANY of you ‘escaped’ was due to America’s involvement.
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LOL. And that has what to do with the accuracy of the movie?
Picking a fight with British airmen who risked their lives in WW2 and suffered in captivity ill becomes you.
The movie was Hollywood. By Hollywood standards, they kept fairly close to the facts. But they really wanted McQueen, and that completely bogus scene is how they got him.
They escaped - no scare quotes - by their own efforts. America truly had nothing to do with it. You appear to be off your head.
And Great Britain ‘escaped’ the power of Nazi Germany by dint of the power of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Is it your contention that America conferred these upon Great Britain? If so, I have news for you - the British created them.
America didn’t join the war until long after Hitler had given up on Operation Seelowe - the invasion of Britain. Don’t like it? Tough, those are the facts.
And America didn’t join the war to save Britain, or even Poland. America joined the war after being attacked at Pearl Harbor. Don’t like it? Too bad: history is not on your side.