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Lt Col Charles Hamilton James (great-great-great grandfather) Rev. Mark James (grandfather) Bertram Arthur "Jimmy" James, MC, RAF (17 April 1915 – 18 January 2008) was a British survivor of The Great Escape. He was an officer of the Royal Air Force, ultimately reaching (some years after the Great Escape) the rank of Squadron Leader .
In the Cowra breakout, at least 545 out of 1,004 Japanese POWs escaped from Number 12 POW Compound at Cowra, Australia on the night of 4 August 1944. Out of the roughly 500 escapees, 231 died and 108 were wounded. 31 killed themselves and 12 were burnt to death in huts set on fire by the Japanese.
The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees . It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book. Memorial to "The Fifty" Allied airmen murdered after ...
The Great Escape (1986) was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and DOS platforms, and shares a title and similar plot to the movie. The game follows an unnamed prisoner of war who has been interned in a POW camp somewhere in northern Germany in 1942. The Great Escape (2003) was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2. The ...
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 1988 American made-for-television action-adventure drama film and a sequel to The Great Escape (1963). It stars Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Denison, Ian McShane, Charles Haid and Donald Pleasence in a supporting role (in the 1963 original Pleasence had played Flight-Lieutenant Colin Blythe, "The Forger").
Maze Prison escape. Coordinates: 54°29′19″N 6°6′27″W. The Maze Prison escape (known to Irish republicans as the Great Escape) took place on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe.
Website. centralcee .com. Musical artist. Oakley Neil Caesar-Su[ 4] (born 4 June 1998), known professionally as Central Cee, is a British rapper from Shepherd's Bush, London. [ 1] He rose to prominence in 2020 with the release of the singles "Day in the Life" and "Loading". [ 5] His first mixtape Wild West was released on 12 March 2021, which ...
Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor. / 43.350991; -73.690112. Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Six Flags. It is located approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Albany, in Queensbury, New York.