Dulag Luft
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Dulag Luft were German Prisoner of War transit camps for captured airmen from any of the allied air forces during World War II. Their main purpose was to act as collection and interrogation centres fo
Sgt. Edward Hill of Manchester, England, freed from five years of captivity at Dulag Luft, by the American Seventh Armored Division, First Army, c.29 March 1945
Roger Bushell
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Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 esca
Dulag Luft
…with the Germans, the permanent staff, headed by Day, had set up an escape committee with other members of the staff, including Squadron Leader Roger Bushell and Lt Cmdr Jimmy Buckley RN. Buckley was a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm and as such the Germans had placed him, with all other FAA aircrew, under the…
Bushell in his Royal Air Force uniform shortly before his capture
Squadron Leader Roger Bushell (right) with Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck.
From left: Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, Leutnant Eberhardt (German security) and Paddy Byrne (fellow POW)
Stalag Luft III mockup.