The plan was spearheaded by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell – who in the film was renamed Bartlett, and played by Attenborough. First captured in 1940 after being shot down, Bushell had an impressive ...

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.

The escape was orchestrated by Roger Bushell, a Royal Air Force pilot who had been shot down over France while assisting with the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk. Bushell and as many as 600 fellow ...

This anniversary is particularly relevant to Ekurhuleni residents because the leader of the escape, Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, was born in Springs as the son of a mining engineer. April 1, 2024 ...

Of these prisoners, all but three were recaptured, and 50, including Bushell, were executed. The Great Escape, however, succeeded in its primary goal of diverting enemy resources from the war effort.

Bushell’s breathtaking plan was for 200 men to escape on a single night, using one of three tunnels, named Tom, Dick and Harry, that would run 300 feet to the camp perimeter, causing major ...

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.

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 ...

Squadron Leader Roger Bushell kickstarted the operation in 1943, as prisoners started digging three large tunnels – nicknamed ‘Tom’, ‘Dick’ and ‘Harry’.