The Hero Who the Great Escape ; He Inspired the Greatest Wartime Escape Film. But Eric 'Digger' Dowling , Who Died This Week, Spent His Life Playing Down the Role
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TO HAVE any chance of succeeding, an escape tunnel had to be deep. Experience taught British World War II prisoners-of-war that anything shallow would quickly be discovered.
The German guards would have only to drive a heavy truck over the sandy compound, there would be a cave-in and the game would be up.See the full content of this document
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The Hero Who the Great Escape ; He Inspired the Greatest Wartime Escape Film. But Eric 'Digger' Dowling , Who Died This Week, Spent His Life Playing Down the Role
So dig deep -- 25ft down -- was what the Royal Air Force inmates of the Stalag Luft III camp at Sagan in Poland did in 1944.
And dig long -- 340ft to the other side of the barbed wire. For those toiling beneath the ground, conditions were hellish. Just enough room for two men at the bottom of the entrance shaft. Oxygen so sparse that the primitive candle made from animal fat would flicker and die, leaving nothing...See the full content of this document
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