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The incredible story of how POWs played golf at the ‘Great Escape’ prison camp
CNN via Yahoo Sports· 3 months agoBeyond the towering rolls of barbed wire, the world was on fire — continents ravaged, a death toll...
Great Escape heroes ‘were betrayed by English collaborators’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDesmond Plunkett was one of the inspirations for Donald Pleasence's character, Colin Bythe (second...
‘Masters of the Air’ Part Seven: Punching through
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 3 months ago(Apple TV+) Reunited with Buck Cleven, Bucky Egan and other men from the 100th Bomb Group, including Crank Cruikshank, Frank Murphy, Hambone Hamilton and...
'Masters of the Air' Episode 7 Pays Homage to 'The Great Escape'
Esquire via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWhen we last left our Masters of the Air heroes–John "Bucky" Egan (Callum Turner) and Gale "Buck"...
Prisoner in ‘Great Escape’ Nazi camp hid secret code in letter to mother
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA prisoner of war held in the Nazi camp that inspired the 1963 film The Great Escape sent a secret...
'Masters of the Air' Part Eight: Trying hard
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 3 months ago'Masters of the Air' Part Eight: Trying hard photo The penultimate episode of Masters of the Air introduces the Tuskegee Airmen of the 99th Pursuit...
Replica of Great Escape tunnel commemorates 80 years since epic breakout
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe upcoming 80th anniversary of the Great Escape has been marked with the unveiling of an 80ft...
The Great Escape, ‘pathetic’ collaborators and the British men who fought for Hitler
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBFC traitors Alfred Minchin (second right) and Kenneth Berry (second left) with SS officers in 1944...
Nazi camp inquiry finds succession of cover-ups
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSylt camp on Alderney was run by the SS [BBC] A "succession of cover-ups" meant nobody was brought to justice for the deaths of hundreds of people in...
London exhibition chronicles 'Great Escape' and other WWII prisoner breakouts
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrom P.G. Wodehouse's typewriter in a Polish camp to hidden maps in a deck of cards, the exhibition...