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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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.