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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...
Veterans column: WWII veteran Frederick Wright among prisoners in 100-mile death march
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn January 1945, as the Allied forces approached Germany from the west and the Russian army moved in...
'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"...
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...
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...
Austin Butler and Callum Turner Dissect Emotional ‘Masters of the Air’ Reunion: ‘Their Whole...
Variety via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Part 6” of “Masters of the Air,” now streaming on...
'Masters of the Air' Episode 8 Introduces the Legendary Tuskegee Airmen
Esquire via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn past Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg-produced World War II dramas—like the celebrated Band of...
‘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...
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...
'Greatest man from the greatest generation': 105-year-old WWII pilot and POW dies
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRobert Doolan, a World War II pilot who was held as a prisoner of war for almost two years, died Wednesday at the Western Hills Retirement Community. He was 105 years old. Born and raised in ...