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Rick

Mar 23, 2014 - 11:11PM

The Great Escape

Hi,tomorrow is the seventieth anniversary of the Great Escape, 24 March 1944
R.I.P all those who died trying

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barry

Mar 23, 2014 - 11:35PM

Re: The Great Escape

just watched it, i love this film
its a shame for all thoes 50 people R.I.P

barry

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Scott Clark

Mar 24, 2014 - 4:47AM

Re: The Great Escape

RIP.

Really good book if you have not read it.

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Lincoln Bill

Mar 24, 2014 - 10:30AM

Re: The Great Escape

This story never fails to amaze me. The shear audacity of it, the scale of the work and right under the Germans noses. Perhaps the most staggering thing is what they did with the soil. You go and dig a 3 foot square hole in your garden and see how much spoil you end up with, then try to hide it, then multiply that by the many hundreds of feet of tunnel they excavated. Plus they were digging through sand, the most unstable thing you could hope to put a tunnel through. A truly amazing and remarkably brave bunch of lads. Inspiring stuff

Sir Ewok

Mar 24, 2014 - 2:31PM

Re: The Great Escape

I watched a programme about the tunnels, they were trying to excavate them and found that the soil was so unstable they had to stop. This was using modern equipment and all the up-to-date safety methods. Health and safety gone mad....

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Ian Wright

Mar 24, 2014 - 4:31PM

Re: The Great Escape

I guess risking being buried alive to escape from a prisoner of war camp and risking the same to make a television programme are a bit different.. ...Ian

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ken

Mar 24, 2014 - 6:00PM

Re: The Great Escape

worth taking the risk thse days just to escape from the crap on tele.

[thats not in any way meant to trivalise the 50]

Ian Wright

Mar 24, 2014 - 8:45PM

Re: The Great Escape

I don't have one..and it's very rarely I feel I'm missing anything.... ...Ian

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Trevor

Mar 25, 2014 - 12:21PM

Re: The Great Escape

A man with a lathe has no need for a tele

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Richard Smith

Mar 25, 2014 - 6:43PM

Re: The Great Escape

Television is like sucking your thumb, you grow out of it.

John Tinley

Mar 25, 2014 - 8:59PM

Re: The Great Escape

My fatherinlaw who is now 94 escaped after the Great Escape. Luckily he was not shot but sent to The Gestapo prison at Theresianstaddt. I took him back to see it a few years ago and it was a very harrowing experiance. It is amazing that he survived such a terrible experiance but lucky for my children that he did. Cheers John