Editor's Note: On the night of March 24-25, 1944, 76 Allied prisoners of Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp in Sagan, 100 miles southeast of Berlin, escaped through a tunnel named "Harry." ...
The exhibition, which details some of the real life experiences of prisoners of war and civilian internees during WW2, has ...
Several months before the Great Escape, the senior British officer in the Stalag Luft III camp asked fellow prisoner and artist Ley Kenyon to create a visual document of "Harry," the tunnel used ...
Egan entered the camp at Stalag Luft III thinking his buddy perished a week earlier, only to find that he was alive and well.
As loosely depicted in The Great Escape, a 1963 film, 76 British and international air force members successfully escaped from the Stalag Luft III camp in March 1944, only for most of them to be ...
Stephen Fry (Wing Commander James Forrester)Nicholas Lyndhurst ('Chump' Cosgrove)Geoffrey Palmer (The Kommandant)Sam Kelly (Adolf Hitler)David Bamber (The Prof)Hugh Bonneville (Sqdn. Ldr. Barton ...
A partially restored Spitfire plane will be displayed in central London next month as part of a two-day display of sports ...
Stalag Luft III - One Man's Story is told by World War II prisoner of war U.S. Eighth Air Force Lt. Charles Woehrle, one of 10,000 prisoners in Stalag Luft III, depicted in the movie "The Great ...
This period of time may feel shortened due to the episode's focus on Gale Cleven (Austin Butler) and John Egan (Callum Turner ...
Mr Plunkett, who lived in Storrington, was among 76 men who escaped through a 360ft tunnel from the Stalag Luft III camp on March 23, 1944. He was one of 73 to be recaptured and was held in ...
Wartime medals and a rare pin that belongs to an RAF prisoner of war will go under the hammer in Royal Wootton Bassett.