He also escaped in 1998 and 1999, earning himself the nickname El Fugas, or The Escaper.
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Song two, "Switches," features David Scott Stone. "Everybody's Down," "Neck Escapah" (as "Neck Escaper"), and "I Wanna Sleep" were all re-released as part of No Age's debut album Weirdo Rippers, which collects the highlights of all 5 singles and EPs.
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Another successful escaper from Marlag was Lieutenant David James, RNVR. In December 1943 James slipped out of the shower block, but was arrested at the port of Lübeck. In late 1944 he escaped again and this time made it to Sweden.
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His role was to pull 20 men through until relieved by escaper number 65 and then escape himself and take cover in the woods to await the next nine men before making good his escape.Carroll (2004), p.13 Model of Stalag Luft III prison camp.
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On 2 November 1943 Kazimirez Halori, another Polish prisoner, escaped and passed information to the Polish Socialist Party. Natalia Zarembina assembled testimony from another Polish escaper and others into a report entitled "Auschwitz—Camp of Death" which was published in English in 1943 in London.
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Chalgrove appeared in an episode of the British TV series The Professionals, the Cessna 172 being used by an escaper supposedly crashing into an airfield building. An episode of the cult series The Prisoner also used Chalgrove, including sequences involving a Martin-Baker Gloster Meteor.
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Joseph John Thomas Pawelka (1887-?) was a New Zealand criminal and prison escaper. He was born in West Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand in 1887. His parents, Josef Pawelka and Louise Konig, were Moravian immigrants to New Zealand. In 1900, thirteen-year-old Joseph was apprenticed to an uncle as a butcher.
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Evans "lectured" Hutton, emphasising that the three essentials for an escaper are: maps, compasses and a food-source. Later, Hutton realised that Evans should have added a safe water supply with the food. Crockatt had given Hutton a free hand to decide how to organise his work and choose its priorities.Hutton pp.
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The determined escaper often needed a means of cutting through the iron window-bars of a prison. Hutton mentions "a tiny saw" among the contents of the RAF Ration Box Mk.II, but this must indeed have been very small to fit into the cigarette tin alongside other objects. Foot & LangleyFoot & Langley (1979), pp. 56 & 109.
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William Franklin Ash MBE (30 November 1917 – 26 April 2014), most commonly known as Bill Ash, was an American-born British writer and Marxist, who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II."William Ash" (obituary), The Economist, 10 May 2014. He was shot down, made a prisoner of war, and was noted as an escaper.
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Among survivors was Major George Drew. A serial escaper, he spent most of the war in Colditz. The most distinguished Old Boy was Group Captain James Brian Tait, one of the RAF's most highly decorated bomber pilots, who led the attack which sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944. In 1965 the school received a visit from Her Majesty the Queen.
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Shortly after his recruitment by MI9, Hutton met "Johnny" Evans, who appears to have made a strong impression. Evans "lectured" Hutton, emphasising that the three essentials for an escaper are: maps; compasses and a food- source. Later, Hutton realised that Evans should have added a safe water supply with the food. Hutton's first escape packs used cigarette tins as the container.
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Stanisław Zygmunt "Danny" Król (22 March 1916 – 12 April 1944), known as "Danny", was a Polish Supermarine Spitfire fighter pilot flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He is notable both as a persistent escaper and for the part he played in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 being one of the men recaptured and shot by the Gestapo.
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Massey then became the Senior British Officer at Stalag Luft III, and authorised the "Great Escape". Massey walked with a limp and had suffered severe wounds to the same leg in both wars. There would be no escape for him but as Senior British Officer, he had to know what was going on. Group Captain Massey had been a veteran escaper himself and had been in trouble with the Gestapo.
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Hutton, pp.50–53. He placed a huge order for 20,000 full "Flat Fifty" tins of cigarettes with W.D. & H.O. Wills of Bristol. For several days, he packed and un-packed the tins until he found the best way of fitting in the concentrated food and other items useful to an escaper. Showing his first efforts to Johnny Evans, the latter pointed out that a safe water supply was also necessary.
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Kierath was born in Narromine, New South Wales, Australia the youngest of the nine children of Ada Elise and William Kierath of German descent who owned the general store. In 1929 he left Narromine to attend Shore School and graduated in 1933. Willy Williams another “Great Escaper” was also educated at Shore School. Kierath was a good sportsman and also achieved reasonable academic results sufficient to gain a position with the Bank of Australasia.
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Keddie was a well known character in Stalag Luft III for his ability to distract the guards as other prisoners distributed earth dug from the tunnels into the camp garden areas. For the Great Escape operation he frequently took part in the tunnelling with Henry Birkland.Andrews (1976), p.52 When the alarm was sounded and shots fired as the 77th escaper was sighted running from the tunnel mouth to the woods Keddie was preparing to enter the main tunnel.
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The yellow drum that they had left behind in Brunswick Heads was similar to a yellow drum that the couple had used on the morning of the murder, three kilometers away from where Noel Weckert had been found. As time passed, the police became more convinced that Sophia Weckert was no longer alive, and believed that her body had been dumped in the Connors River.(27 March 1975) Escaper suspect, page 7, The Canberra Times. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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Dominic Bruce, (7 June 1915 – 12 February 2000) was a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man." He has been described as "the most ingenious escaper" of the Second World War. He made seventeen attempts at escaping from POW camps, including several attempts to escape from Colditz Castle, a castle that housed prisoners of war "deemed incorrigible". Famed for his time in Colditz, Bruce also escaped from Spangenberg Castle and the Warburg POW camp.
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In Vincigliata he became one of the gardeners, as well as keeping sixteen hens, "and tended them like a mother."Neame, p.76. He was an enthusiastic escaper, taking turns in tunnelling, and one of the six officers to escape in April 1943. Unfortunately he was caught the next morning at Milan railway station, whilst studying a timetable.Neame, p.308. He escaped again with all remaining officers and men during the Italian Armistice in September 1943.
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In his autobiographical book, 'The Tunnellers of Sandborstal' (Robert Hale, 1959), Lieutenant Commander John 'Bosun' Chrisp MBE RN said that "Bruce's adventures in various corners of occupied Europe read like John Buchan (author of 'The Thirty Nine steps') at his most melodramatic" and that Bruce "can claim to be the most ingenious and unlucky escaper of the war." Eric Foster's autobiography, 'Life Hangs by a Silken Thread' is an eyewitness source for the Swiss Red Cross Commission escape at Spangenberg Castle.
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In 1993, the Derby County Former Professional Players' Association elected him an honorary member, and in 2015 named him as the recipient of its annual merit award for services to the club. He is also a member of the Sports Journalists' Association, the International Society of Olympic Historians and the Football Writers' Association. His book Gunter Plüschow: Airman, Escaper, Explorer, was published by Pen & Sword in 2009. A collection of his columns from the Derby Telegraph – A Derby View – was published by Wharncliffe in October 2010.
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Barclay's older brother Charles, an army officer, was killed in 1944.a memorial to both brothers is in Cromer Parish Church, where their father was vicar at the time of their deaths: George Barclay, "Battle of Britain Pilot:the self-portrait of an RAF fighter pilot and escaper," Haynes Publishing, 2012 p18 His diaries, written during his wartime career up until his death, were published in 1974 and give a rare, descriptive and highly articulate first hand account of the life of a fighter pilot in 1940–41. An expanded edition was published in 2012.
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They searched out passports from foreign embassies and private citizens that could be used to help those wishing to escape. These students faced the extreme challenge of evading the Stasi and its spies. The punishments for trying to "flee the republic" were harsh, but these students were adamant in their resolve, and exceptional at deceiving the Stasi. > It was of course not without danger for the runner, or for the potential > escaper, for if the Stasi...got wind of it, then both would be arrested and > tried, the one as the escape organizer, the other for 'fleeing the > Republic'.
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Some of the hostages had disappeared but the majority elected to stay at the hotel under the protection of the Wehrmacht. Great Escaper Wing Commander Harry Day and the Italian resistance leader who had arranged the hostage accommodation at Niederdorf, left the hotel on 1 May to make their way to the US front line in order to persuade US forces to mount a second and final rescue mission. Day and his companion finally crossed the US Fifth Army’s lines on 3 May. In the meantime, all German forces in Italy had surrendered with effect from 2 May.
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Bethell participated in "the Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, he was actively involved in tunneling and hauling away the soil,Vance (2000), p.200 to build the tunnel in which two hundred men were to slip through a tunnel code named "Harry", which ran below the ground and outwards. Due to a calculation error, it surfaced just short of the tree-line which was supposed to give cover to the escapers. The 77th escaper was spotted by a guard around 5am and the alarm sounded. Bethell’s position during the escape was initially at "Leicester Square", the second staging point along the tunnel's length.
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Hunk Humphreys and Paul Royle headed off southwards when the group split and struggled through the thick snow and biting cold. They dodged four civilians but near the village of Tiefenfurt were arrested by a party of German Home Guard within 24 hours just sixteen miles to the south of the camp at about 0300 on the morning of 26 March 1944,The Daily Express – 5 September 2015 Obituary Paul Royle they were locked up in the local prison. Fellow escaper Shorty Anderson arrived next and then Johnny Marshall and Willy Valenta. The four were driven to Sagan police station the next morning where Bill Cameron was brought in.
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On May 8, 1978, he produced a gun, stole keys and, with François Besse (a highly accomplished escaper in his own right), and another man, Mesrine got out of a cellblock and into a fenced-off yard walkway. They had a grappling iron with them and Mesrine forced some workmen with an extending ladder to bring the ladder along. The trio unlocked a yard gate in an inner wall; an armed guard was taken by surprise at his post. The men then reached an isolated part of the 14 metre (46 ft) high exterior wall (which would have presented a considerable challenge without the ladder).
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Called up on the outbreak of war, and posted to No. 249 Squadron RAF in July 1940, he flew through the Battle of Britain, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in October. During the Battle of Britain, his diary records that he could see his house while flying from RAF North Weald.George Barclay, "Battle of Britain Pilot:the self-portrait of an RAF fighter pilot and escaper," Haynes Publishing, 2012, p16 Barclay's DFC citation from November 1940 reads: As a flight commander with No. 611 Squadron RAF, Barclay was shot down over occupied France in September 1941. He force landed and evaded capture, making his way to Spain with help from the French Resistance.
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Escape from Colditz is a strategy card and dice-based board game produced by Gibsons Games of London and first released in 1973. The original game box features escape equipment on the lid and has a four section, black plastic internal game items tray. It was licensed to Parker Brothers in the US in the mid-1970s. The game was co-devised by successful escaper Pat Reid, based on the prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag IV-C) at Colditz Castle in Germany during World War II. The castle was built by the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony from 1694 to 1793, Augustus The Strong, upon ruins resulting from the Hussite wars of the fifteenth century, (1400's).
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McDaid was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt at the 1989 general election and he was re-elected at each subsequent general election until his retirement in 2010. He ousted sitting Fianna Fáil TD Hugh Conaghan, and, according to The Irish Times, was selected by the party to run against their own man due to Conaghan's opposition to the then Leader of Fianna Fáil Charles Haughey. He remained on the backbenches until 1991 when he was nominated by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to the position of Minister for Defence. On the morning of his appointment, however, a photograph emerged taken outside Dublin's Four Courts on the day a judge ruled that the Maze Prison escaper, James Pius Clarke, should not be extradited to the United Kingdom.
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Within a week of Noel Weckert's murder, police said that they suspected a prison escapee was responsible for this crime. The escapee had been last seen driving a white 1974 Holden Belmont station wagon, which had been stolen from Victoria two months prior. Police said that they believed him as being armed, and also suspected him for the attempted rape of a hitchhiker on 14 March 1975. After Sophia Weckert's body had been found, police continued looking for a "jockey-sized" man who had escaped from the Palen Creek Correctional Centre near Brisbane. On 30 March 1975, police conducted an early morning raid on a house in Wavell Heights, after having spotted the Holden Belmont station wagon at Caboolture.(31 March 1975) Escaper queried over 2 murders, page 3, The Canberra Times.
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In 1939, before it was a POW camp, the area was originally planned to be an airfield. The POW camp was opened in September 1940. At first French, and then British officers were housed there. The serial escaper Eric Foster in his autobiography explained that upon arrival he chatted to a guard to ask about the conditions of the camp. Foster explained the guard confided, “the camp was a very, very bad camp indeed.” Foster stressed that this guard desperately wanted the prisoners to complain about the conditions, with the guard believing that if they harassed the camp command about the conditions, the camp would be closed down. The guard, who wanted an easier posting also stated to Foster, “We are prisoners as much as you are.” Foster explained the prisoners were housed in huts which held 50 to 60 men.
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