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In 1943 work had begun on "Harry", the tunnel that allowed over 70 men to escape from the German POW camp, "Stalag III", during World War II. This was the same tunnel made famous by the movie "The Great Escape." The URL below takes you to a site where one of the men, after the War, drew a diagram with explanations of each of the sections.
It's amazing how accurate the movie was, even though it couldn't possibly include all the information involved in this great engineering feat. I hope that you find this as interesting as I did.
http://www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html
The Great Escape
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Tiger
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The Great Escape
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"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Re: The Great Escape
Well i mean Holy shit they even built that in reality
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