RAF Commemoration of the Great Escape

[TarJak]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-26/british-airmen-mark-70-years-since-the-great-escape/5345988

70th Anniversary of the Great Escape is being commemorated by a 170km march by RAF personnel in Poland from the site of Stalag Luft III to a military cemetry in Poznan.

A very fitting commemoration IMO.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

~SALUTE~

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-great-escape-70-years-on

[August]

That is pretty cool. Good for them!

[Jimbuna]

Roger Bushell, the man behind the great escape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell

[TarJak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0wNl66tT3Q

"Good Luck"

"Thank you"

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

76 escaped, 50 where executed by the Gestapo, 17 where returned to Stalag Luft III, 4 where sent to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, only three made "Home runs".:salute:

For those interested there's a book about a less well know escape also make from Stalag Luft III called The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams. http://www.amazon.com/The-Wooden-Horse-Classic-Escape/dp/1628736690/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1VQTRKYB29DJTPWP6GDE

[Jimbuna]

Was a great movie...The Wooden Horse (1950)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043147/