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Title As It Happened: The Great Escape - Secrets Revealed - Ep 2 Of 2 / Director: Nelson, Paul
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 min. 17 sec.) ; 271609926 bytes
Summary A crack team of engineers and archaeologists join forces with some of the original survivors, to unearth, for the first time, the secrets of the most famous wartime escape in history. On the night of 24th March 1944 76 allied airmen escaped from the North Compound of Stalag Luft III, a supposedly "escape-proof" POW camp in what is now Western Poland. This was the "Great Escape", one of the most iconic and thrilling stories in military history. (Part 2 of 2) (From Canada) (Documentary) (History) PG CC **Final**
Event Broadcast 2014-02-28 at 21:35:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject Stalag Luft III.
Excavating machinery.
Prisoner-of-war escapes.
Research teams.
Tunneling -- Research.
World War (1939-1945)
Poland.
Germany.
Form Streaming video
Author Nelson, Paul, director
Biggs, Ted, host
Hunt, Hugh, contributor
King, Stanley Gordie, contributor
Le Cornu, John Frenchie, contributor
Shinkins, Bill, contributor
Smith, Jim, contributor
Westwood, Philip, contributor