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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. Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau - Wikipedia

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    Von Lindeiner was the basis for the character "Colonel von Luger" in the film The Great Escape, played by actor Hannes Messemer. [5] He has been portrayed by Manfred Andrae in the made-for-TV film The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988). He is depicted as being executed by firing squad for his failure to prevent the breakout.

  4. Roger Bushell - Wikipedia

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    Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force.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.

  5. Great escapes exhibit explores how World War II captives ...

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    Eighty years ago in one of the most ingenious and audacious acts of defiance of World War II, 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German POW camp into a snowy forest. Few managed to make such ...

  6. Great Escape - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape (1986 video game), a game which shares a title and similar plot to the movie The Great Escape (2003 video game) , a game based on the film Rayman 2: The Great Escape , a 1999 platforming video game and the sequel to Rayman

  7. The Great Escape (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape continues to receive acclaim from modern critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 53 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "With its impeccably slow-building story and a cast for the ages, The Great Escape is an all-time action classic." [68]

  8. Netflix documentary to chronicle Casey and Vicky White ... - AOL

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    Casey and Vicky White, the fugitives captured in Evansville in 2022 after a cross-country search, will be the subjects of a Netflix documentary.

  9. Wally Floody - Wikipedia

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    Steve McQueen with Floody, while Floody was a technical advisor in production of the film The Great Escape. In early 1962, Floody received a phone call from director John Sturges. [1] He told Floody he was planning to make a film based on the book by Paul Brickhill, an Australian flyer and writer who, like Floody, had spent time at Stalag Luft III.