The escape was masterminded by the man played by Richard Attenborough, although his real name was Roger Bushell, a squadron leader who had been shot down early in the war, and had made several ...

Local news War hero: Roger Bushell and The Great Escape remembered There are two films about The Great Escape. The first is an award-winning film of 1963 titled The Great Escape.

IT was planned to be the biggest prisoner of war escape ever, with more than 200 men involved in a mass breakout. As it turned out, 76 British and Allied airmen fled from the grim Stalag Luft III P… ...

1963's The Great Escape tells the tale of a daring escape of POWs from Germany's Stalag Luft III in the days of the Second World War. ... There was a "Big X," but his name was Roger Bushell.

The Great Escape. 1 series. Watch on Sky Go See Sky TV deals. Available on 5. 5. In March 1944, 76 men tunnelled out of a Nazi prison camp in the greatest escape of the war. ... Roger Bushell and the ...

In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the BBC about the mission, and the Hollywood film it inspired.

But Squadron Leader Roger ­Bushell — the mastermind behind the breakout that so incensed Hitler he had 50 of the ­recaptured escapers killed — has never had the ­recognition he deserves.