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- Tags: escaping
Scenes and people - Stalag Luft 1 and Dulag Luft
Top middle - a wooden guard tower with telegraph wires and fence to the right and church in the background on the left. Captioned 'F29 Stalag Luft 1'.
Top right - a…
Names of 47 officers shot after escape from Stalag Luft 3
Britain demands facts of prison shootings
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Jim Tyrie
Tags: 10 OTU; 4 Group; 77 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; C-47; Dulag Luft; escaping; Flying Training School; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Shawbury; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Worksop; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Gallantry in Captivity
Tunnelling
Photo 2 is a section of floorboards removed to show the tunnel entrance.
Photo 3 is a view along the tunnel.
Photo 4 and 5 are the potato wine pot, captioned 'Potato wine being made, subsequently banned as it was…
Tags: aircrew; escaping; prisoner of war
End Room Tunnellers April 1941
Photo 2 is a group of ten men.
Photo 3 is a group of 13 men.
Photo 4 is a group…
Tags: aircrew; escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Sergeant Arthur Thomas
Photo 2, 3 and 4 are head and shoulders of Arthur to be used as escape photos on identity cards.
Photo 5 is a head and shoulders escape photo of Flight Sergeant Poynton, skipper of the crew.
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; aircrew; escaping; flight engineer; pilot; RAF Tuddenham
RCAF Nose Art of the "Allan Cup"
Flying Officer Kenneth Killeen
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are head and shoulders portraits annotated as "Escape" photographs.
Photo 4 is a half length portrait of Kenneth with a navigator brevet.
Photo 5 is a near three quarter…
Account of crash of Wellington W5421 and Flt Lt Roy Langlois's crew and Belgian Comet escape line
Mlle Andree De Jongh goes to palace for GM
Newsletter of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society
Tags: escaping
First airman to travel via Comète
Six locations and people in Belgium
Top centre - view down a lane with trees/hedge either side. Captioned 'Lane leading to Mr dr Voegt's house'.
Top right -…
Tags: escaping; evading; memorial; Resistance
Map of Comete line
Le Flight Lieutenant Jack L Newton est revenue a Liege
Newspaper cutting
Tags: escaping; evading; prisoner of war