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RAF squadron leader who devised the REAL Great Escape is to be honoured (tr)
UK Daily Mail ^
| 06/17/2017
| Iain Burns
Posted on 06/17/2017 6:33:50 PM PDT by DFG
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator
To: DFG
Roger Bushell was an amazing man. Sensation-seeking, compulsive, driven.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:37:00 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: DFG
...yeah but could he jump barbwire fences with a motorcycle
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:40:02 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Doogle
Anyone can jump barbed-wire fences on a motorcycle, if the physics align.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:41:41 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: DFG
One of two movies shown at my elementary school. ‘Forbidden Planet’ the other.
Still remember them using the matches and cigarette for a fuse. If the day ever comes...
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:44:29 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:45:29 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Doogle
Gravity: 9.8 meters per second per second.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:46:12 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: mrsmith
They were both great movies. Altira was really, really hot.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:47:46 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Tax-chick
Not everyone can land a motorcycle after jumping a fence.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:49:35 PM PDT
by
jdege
To: jdege
What good does it do, if the Nazis shoot you anyhow?
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:50:14 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: mrsmith
Still remember them using the matches and cigarette for a fuse.I don't remember that from "The Great Escape". It was, however, a key plot element in "Stalag 17" as the method Dunbar used to blow up the Nazi ammunition train.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:52:02 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: DFG
Roger Bushell was called “Bartlett” in the movie and played by Richard Attenborough. Steve McQueen’s character ‘Hilts’ was purely fictional. There were no Americans in the camp or the escape. The motorcycle scene was added at McQueen’s insistence because he was into motorcycles at the time.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:53:11 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: Tax-chick
In the movie, the Krauts didn’t shoot the motorcycle jumper. He ended up back in solitary with his baseball.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:53:26 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:54:14 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: iowamark
Iirc, the Americans were separated from the UK forces soon after their arrival at the camp.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:56:30 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
To: Tax-chick
Hitler ordered all the escapees shot but Goering pleaded with him and most were spared. I think 50 were actually shot but could remember wrong on that.
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posted on
06/17/2017 6:57:58 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: iowamark
The motorcycle scene was added at McQueens insistence because he was into motorcycles at the time. McQueen also did not make that jump.
To: DFG
An accurate depiction by the same name was done on TV. By GE (General Electric) Theater narrated by Ronald Reagan a year earlier. I don’t believe any Americans were involved. At the time the film was released the Brits raised hell about the modified story line because of that fact.
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posted on
06/17/2017 7:05:39 PM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslinl)
To: PAR35
> It was, however, a key plot element in “Stalag 17” as the method Dunbar used to blow up the Nazi ammunition train. <
Shhh...Price might be listening in.
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posted on
06/17/2017 7:06:03 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: iowamark
Jim Garner did play a Canadian-American flier.
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posted on
06/17/2017 7:07:16 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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