Posted on 09/02/2015 10:21:52 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Paul Royle, the last remaining Australian to take part in the 1944 Great Escape, has died aged 101.
The former RAF Flight Lieutenant passed away in Perth on Sunday.
His death leaves just one survivor from the iconic breakout on 24 March, 1944, ex RAF Squadron Leader Dick Churchill, from Devon in the UK.
The pair were part of an audacious escape effort from the notorious Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Sagan, some 160 kilometres east of Berlin.'
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Briton now last survivor of wartime Great Escape after Aussie veteran dies
‘A British war veteran has become the last surviving member of the true story behind The Great Escape, following the death of Australian pilot Paul Royle.’
I loved Paul Brickhill’s book, “The Great Escape,” as a teenager and as an adult.
Yes, a great book!
Someone should do another movie, without ‘hollywoodizing’ it.
>>Someone should do another movie, without ‘hollywoodizing’ it.<<
Would it even be possible to out-do the original GE flick with the likes of McQueen, Bronson, Donald Plesense, James Garner?
What an all star cast. Heck...I think I’ll pull out my old VHS tape and watch it this weekend. lol
RIP.
Two guys who were said to be the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character, the cooler king died last year. One was British, the other was an American who flew for the RCAF, and moved to Britain after the war and became a Communist. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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