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  2. Stalag Luft III - Wikipedia

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    The game surroundings were similar to the actual camp but the supposed location was in Northern Germany, and one side of the camp overlooked the North Sea. The Spectrum version of The Great Escape was placed at number 23 in the Your Sinclair official top 100, [94] The Great Escape also was a game for Xbox and PlayStation 2 released in 2003. The ...

  3. List of Allied airmen from the Great Escape - Wikipedia

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    The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III.It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees.. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book.

  4. Great Escape - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape, a 1950 book by Paul Brickhill describing the 1944 Stalag Luft III escape; The Great Escape: Or, The Sewer Story (1973), a children's story about sewer alligators by Peter Lippman (Golden Press)

  5. Ray Rayner - Wikipedia

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    He enlisted in the Army Air Forces, serving as the navigator of a B-17 during World War II, when he was shot down over France on April 3, 1943. [2] During 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years as a POW in Stalag Luft III, he helped prepare the escape depicted in the film The Great Escape—though he was transferred to another camp before the escape took place.

  6. Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich-Wilhelm Franz Max Erdmann Gustav von Lindeiner genannt von Wildau (12 December 1880 – 22 May 1963) was a German Staff Officer of the Luftwaffe during World War II. He is best known today for having been the commandant of Stalag Luft III, which is famous for the 'great escape' which took place in 1944.

  7. Paul Royle - Wikipedia

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    Flight Lieutenant Paul Gordon Royle (17 January 1914 – 23 August 2015) was an Australian Royal Air Force pilot [1] who was one of the last two survivors of the 76 men who were able to escape from the Stalag Luft III German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II in what became known as The Great Escape.

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  9. Roger Bushell - Wikipedia

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    Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African in the British Royal Air Force aviator. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police.