The Unbelievable True Story Behind the Classic Steve McQueen Film, ‘The Great Escape’
The majority of military and film buffs have seen the 1963 classic, The Great Escape. Starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough,…
William Ash: The Prisoner of War Who Wouldn’t Stop Escaping
William Ash was a survivor of the Nazis’ prisoner of war camps, surviving starvation, freezing temperatures, violence and slave labor. For the prisoners who survived…
New Documentary Tells of Great Escape From Japanese Davao Prisoner of War Camp
A film director has made a new World War Two documentary telling the story of a little-known prisoner of war camp escape attempt from Davao…
93 year old World War Two veteran dies
A 93 year old World War Two veteran Royal Air Force officer has died. John McFarland was originally born in Ireland in 1922, but enlisted…
Seventy years since Allied POWs forced to march across Germany
Seventy years ago 10,000 Allied POWs were forced to march hundreds of kilometres across Germany as the Nazis made their last attempts to salvage any small…
World War Two: Friendship Through Pain, Camaraderie and Valour
Seventeen heroes of World War Two has built a long term friendship among themselves through the pain, camaraderie and valour they shared together while in…
Goodbye, WWII Wing Commander and The Great Escape Hero Ken Rees (1922-2014)
WWII Wing Commander and said to be the basis for Steve McQueen’s character in the war classic The Great Escape – Ken Rees – passed away at…
“Great Escape” Dick Churchill – “My Name May Have Saved My Life!”
Dick Churchill were one of the “Great Escape” tunnel’s diggers where only 3 POWs made it to freedom while the remainder 73 were recaptured and…