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Who could imagine that, 60 years after the event, a home-made elope tunnel would unruffled be recognizable? And in friable, sandy soil at that? Or that the rubber imprint made from a POW’s heel, once passe to perform forged documents for the escapees, would serene have the recognizable marking of German Nazi insignia? Or that a chain of Klim cans, once strung together to ventilate the tunnel, would smooth exist in spite of decades of corrosion?
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This DVD shows this and more. Archeologists first clear, from mature aerial photos of Stalag Luft III, the situation of the onetime hut that contained tunnel Dick. Next, the trap of Dick was located. It had been designed and then cleverly concealed in a concrete draining pit by a POW who had been a Polish engineer in the RAF. The tunnel opening itself was impartial beyond a vertical slotted slab that had been fitted on the side of the draining pit (not the underside of the pit as erroneously shown in the film on the Gargantuan Hasten) . The corroded hooks once broken-down to capture the slab were also found. Portion of the electric wiring extinct in Dick was calm visible. Most probably, it had been section of that waterproof wiring that a POW had stolen from a German electrician. The fact that Dick had been abandoned for flee purposes and had been converted into a storage chamber explains the fact that the forger’s rubber price was also found in the upper piece of the tunnel.
Because the tunnel had been dug thirty feet deep, a power shovel was archaic to dig a pit down to that level. One could at once like the challenge to the tunnelers posed by the loose yellow sand. It kept cascading down into the pit. However, even though Dick had long since collapsed and the shoring boards rotted away, the crisp linear outline of the tunnel could detached be clearly seen at the bottom of the pit. Further probing revealed the chain of Klim cans once conventional to ventilate this tunnel. Unfortunately, the increasing inconvenience of the sand collapsing caused further excavation to be called off.
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A number of ageing veterans of Stalag Luft III were on hand to behold the excavation. One of them was Jimmy James. The scenes of the excavation of Dick were interspersed with scenes showing extinct photos of the camp as well as descriptions of the Sizable Race itself. It would be inviting if there were a followup dig to the set of Harry. After the Big Sprint, the Germans had poured sewage into the tunnel but, unlike Tom, did not blow it up. At very least the concrete plugs poured in by the Germans, into both the exit and entry shafts of Harry, should be readily findable.
IN A NUTSHELL:
This Nova documentary features the recent and the accurate dwelling of “THE Titanic Dash” as seen by “Battlefield Archaeologists” who reveal artifacts which fit together neatly with the record of “The Spacious Run”. Three survivors of the historic event are on hand at the dwelling and provide first-hand insight to augment the theories and official picture. The high-security POW camp, Stalag Luft III, in Zagon, Poland, was on March 24, 1944, the residence of a audacious mass rush where 76 allied prisoners got out, 50 were “killed while escaping” several weeks later after being captured, and 4 made it to safety.
Suffice it to say that the Nova battlefield archaelogical team, equipped with scientists, witnesses, engineers, and excavators, found the remains of one of the distinguished escape’s tunnels along with a plethora of artifacts that encourage the historical and eyewitness accounts.
EXCELLENT COMPANION TO THE WAR DRAMA “THE Huge Flee” – Starring Steve McQueen:
This Nova documentary makes an terrific companion to the 1963 Hollywood drama [filmed in Germany], ideally to be seen immediately before the movie to provide insight and perspective. It is nice to discover that the celebrated 1963 war drama “THE Mountainous Run” starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough was very closely based on fact, mighty more so than most other war dramas from the era.
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