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In his second escape from the prison, he escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower area to a home construction site 1.5 km (0.9 mi) away in a Santa Juanita neighborhood. The tunnel was 1.7 m (5.7 ft) tall and 75 cm (30 in) in width. It was equipped with artificial light, air conditioning, and high-quality construction materials. [105]
Ten of 29 British officers made their way to freedom, making this "the most successful escape from a German prison camp during the First World War". [8] 1918 – US Navy Lieutenant Edouard Izac was taken prisoner aboard the U-boat which sank his ship in May 1918. On the trip to Germany, he learned important information about enemy submarine ...
Entrance to the prison. On 22 December 1955, Hannan, with fellow inmate Gwynant Thomas, escaped the prison. Hannan had been there just 30 days. Hannan and fellow inmate Gwynant Thomas escaped by using a knotted bedsheet to climb over the wall (according to a later interview with a future governor, the wall was "probably" lower than it is today).
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...
Aomori Prison. Shiratori was imprisoned at Aomori prison in 1936 for a felony murder charge, [5] and after studying the guards' routine for months, he escaped by picking his cell lock with the metal wire that was wrapped around the washroom's bucket provided for bathing and escaped through a cracked skylight.
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The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a POW camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia.It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest.