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TarJak

03-25-14 07:51 PM

RAF Commemoration of the Great Escape

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-2...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

03-26-14 05:22 AM

~SALUTE~

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...pe-70-years-on

August

03-26-14 05:28 AM

That is pretty cool. Good for them!

Jimbuna

03-26-14 06:03 AM

Roger Bushell, the man behind the great escape.

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

TarJak

03-26-14 07:43 AM

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

"Good Luck"

"Thank you"

Kptlt. Neuerburg

03-26-14 12:14 PM

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-Hor...YB29DJTPWP6GDE

Jimbuna

03-26-14 12:20 PM

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

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

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