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TUNNEL TO FREEDOM

- By Flight Lt. Paul Brickhill,

Royal Australian Air Forces, as told to

Allan A. Michie, December 1945 in the real-life Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners sprung themselves from a German POW camp by digging a 336-foot tunnel under a stove. The tale became a 1963 film starring Steve Mcqueen and Richard Attenborou­gh.

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