The exhibition, which details some of the real life experiences of prisoners of war and civilian internees during WW2, has ...
The aircraft shot down by German planes in 1942 was piloted by an airman who took part in a famous POW camp breakout.
Flight Lieutenant Desmond Plunkett was one of the 76 airmen who attempted to flee the Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp in March 1944. All but three were recaptured and 50 brutally executed.
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 ...
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." ...
A partially restored Spitfire plane will be displayed in central London next month as part of a two-day display of sports ...
The wartime memento was owned by Marcel Zillessen, who helped mastermind the breakout of 76 men from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in 1944. It was found by a plumber at the back of an ...
Egan entered the camp at Stalag Luft III thinking his buddy perished a week earlier, only to find that he was alive and well.
The wartime memento was owned by Marcel Zillessen, who helped mastermind the breakout of 76 men from the Stalag Luft III ...
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 ...
Maj. Gale “Buck” Cleven of Casper is the main character of a true-life Apple TV series, which debuted earlier this year, ...
Paul McGann (Self - Narrator)Frank Stone (Self - Stalag Luft III, 1942-45)Alan Bryett (Self - Stalag Luft III, 1943-45)Howard Tuck (Self - Historian)Philip Westwood (Self - Chief Engineer ...