After 75 years, the Great Escape still demonstrates the personal honor and ethical commitment of World War II POWs—and in the movie, the motorcycle cool of Steve McQueen
On March 24, 1944, dozens of malnourished, ragged Allied prisoners of war began crawling out of a 340-foot tunnel they had spent nine months digging under Stalag Luft III, a Nazi prison camp in Lower Silesia. Just three of the 76 escapees reached safety. All of the others were recaptured, and 50 of them were executed.
The operation, whose 75th anniversary we mark this week, came to be known as “The Great Escape.” It received widespread public attention in a 1950 book of that name by one of the plotters, Australian pilot Paul...
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