Romualdas Marcinkus was a Lithuanian pilot. Marcinkus participated in an early trans-European flight on 25 June 1934, and was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. In his youth Marcinkus was a Lithuanian multifold football champion and a playing coach for the Lithuania national football team.
Gates of the Kaunas Military School. Marcinkus graduated from here in 1928
Marcinkus reporting after a flight
Marcinkus later became a parachute instructor in the Lithuanian Air Force
Crew of the trans-European flight (from left): Jurgis Savickis, Antanas Gustaitis, Jonas Liorentas, Juozas Namikas, Jonas Mikėnas, Romualdas Marcinkus, and Kazys Rimkevičius near an ANBO 41 plane.
Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
Model of the set used to film the movie The Great Escape. It depicts a smaller version of a single compound in Stalag Luft III. The model is now at the museum near where the prison camp was located.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau, Kommandant of Stalag Luft III.
End of "Harry"
End of "Harry" tunnel showing how close the exit was to the camp fence
