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How the Great Escape tunnels were built (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/13/2019 | Sara Malm

Posted on 02/13/2019 6:04:52 PM PST by DFG

A remarkable set of photographs showing how captured Allied soldiers dug a tunnel used for the famous 'Great Escape' have appeared in a new book to mark 75 years since the event.

They depict the ingeniously engineered tunnels which helped nearly 80 soldiers escape from the notorious Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III, in Sagan, Poland on March 25, 1944.

Of the 76 Allied airmen who broke out, 50 were later executed by the Gestapo on the direct orders of a humiliated Adolf Hitler - only three successfully evaded capture.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushell; greatescape; sagan; stalag
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To: Equine1952

My brothers father in law was a farm boy that became a B17 pilot. After the war he went back to the farm and never flew anywhere the rest of his life. My brother has his leather flight jacket.


21 posted on 02/13/2019 9:09:01 PM PST by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Bader got transferred to “Der Das Sonderlager” or Colditz for his escape effort.

Regards,

22 posted on 02/13/2019 9:09:47 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: whistleduck

Prayers do get results...


23 posted on 02/13/2019 9:19:36 PM PST by tubebender (we)
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To: Equine1952; All

Werner said the pilot was dead at the controls, the tail gunner survived as did one side gunner. Wern remembered to put a couple of 45 slugs through the Norton bomb sight. I will have to reread his notes to me later in life


24 posted on 02/13/2019 9:27:54 PM PST by tubebender (we)
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To: alexander_busek

Danke.

CC


25 posted on 02/14/2019 1:00:41 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DFG

L8r


26 posted on 02/14/2019 4:22:06 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: DFG

Save for later...absolutely!


27 posted on 02/14/2019 4:39:59 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: tubebender
Tubebender...it sounds to me as if your family is just chock full of what many call “The Greatest Generation”!
28 posted on 02/14/2019 4:44:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: whistleduck

a MAMA always knows...


29 posted on 02/14/2019 5:54:22 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: All
I got one date wrong. My two brothers were drafted in early 1942
30 posted on 02/14/2019 9:29:58 AM PST by tubebender (we)
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To: Dr. Sivana

DFG said:
“Eventually, the POWs agreed to return a secret book that was in the car, but only after they finished consuming its contents, and putting a special stamp imprinted inside the book (stamp made from heel of a boot) stating that the book had passed inspection at some British Department of something other. No one does cheeky like the Brits, and no one is more fun to have be the butt of such cheekiness as a Kraut.”

That right there is one of the funniest things I have ever heard!


31 posted on 02/14/2019 2:08:55 PM PST by G-Bear ("Wish I could find a good book.....to live in...." Melanie Safka)
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To: tubebender

It was a different era and the people were real in a way we cannot hope to be.

My mother in law and father in law were models of life for me, I loved them dearly, and they were both caught up in the War. Me? I am the product of the Marshall Plan. Dad went back and married an Italian.


32 posted on 02/14/2019 2:14:30 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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