Deadstick
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This was a incredible story of the biggest escape of WW2, the camp was built on sandy soil deliberately, the level of ingenuity and skill to pull it off was amazing
The Real Story Of The Great Escape From Stalag luft Three
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1srelluc
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The ones that were not shot ended-up at Stalag IX-B at Bad Orb after two forced marches. My Uncle was held there.
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1srelluc
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Correction:
IX-B
No, he was captured during The Battle of the Budge....He was a MP.
The Germans were force marching POWs to wherever the Russians were not. Branch of service did not matter in those final few weeks.
On 2 April 1945 an American task force broke through the German lines, and drove north over 60 km (37 mi) through enemy held territory to Bad Orb, and liberated Stalag IX-B.
The camp was liberated by a task force comprising the 2nd Battalion, 114th Regiment, U.S. 44th Infantry Division, reinforced with Stuart tanks and armored cars from the 106th Cavalry Group and M-10 tank destroyers of 776th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
Deadstick
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Interesting stuff it's good to keep a record of family history, one of my Uncles was captured on the Greek Island of Leros after the battle, but he was very lucky the Germans were transporting British POWs to the Greek mainland probably to be transported to Germany, they had used a big fishing boat but a British Royal Navy ship intercepted it and took the Men off, so he was only a POW for a few days, another interesting story my oldest friend who passed away last year his father was a regular soldier before the War and he later volunteered for the Commandos trained in Scotland, he was captured in the Western Desert and was very lucky not to be executed because of Hitlers order to execute any special forces so he must have been taken prisoner before that order, he spent about three years in a German Camp.
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