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 ...
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.
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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
Danke.
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a MAMA always knows...
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!
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.
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