Recounts the daily lives of the prisoners held at the World War II prison camp Stalag Luft III. Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-400) and index. xiii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Dr. Fred Roberts Crawford was born in 1924 in San Antonio, TX. He was a fighter pilot with the Fourth Squadron, and was stationed in North Africa in 1943, and, in 1944, flew bombing raids over Italy, France, and Romania. In June 1944, Crawford was shot down by friendly fire over Hungary; captured and beaten by Hungarian civilians who believed him to be Jewish, he was saved by a policeman, Ferenc Felsovari, ...

The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration ...

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The story of the third man in the "Wooden House" plot - tells how he managed to reach Stockholm after the trio's escape Stalag Luft III. 412 pages illustrations, portrait, maps 21 cm

De 'Plaquette voor Heije Schaper' in Joure (gemeente De Fryske Marren) herinnnert aan de geboren Jouster Heije Schaper die op 89-jarige leeftijd in 1996 in Den Haag overleed. Schaper heeft bij de marine en de luchtmacht gezeten. Hij was Bevelhebber der Luchtstrijdkrachten van 1956 tot 1961 en staatssecretaris van Defensie in de kabinetten Cals en Zijlstra met de Koninklijke Luchtmacht in zijn portefeuille. ...