Raymond overheard Re: news-876 on the Coconut Telegraph....
JS> RAYMOND,
JS> In a message dated 02-02-98 you wrote ...
> Two that stand out after all these years are the Colditz
> Story,
JS> Colditz was the "Most secure" of all the camps. It was
JS> for the Bad Boys. and had more escapes than any other
JS> place in Germany. I was in the North Compound of Luft
JS> III where 50 were shot by the Gestapo for escape. I got
JS> there later.
JS> I am a life member of the Armed Forces Escape and Evasion
JS> Society. My buddy, James Beatty and I reached Paris just
JS> a few days before the war ended.. Jim lives near me and
JS> still survives though he had a lung removed just recently.
JS> We were survivors. :)
I hope you were able to watch the POW Escapes program on Discovery
Or A&E or one of those channels, I fear Netlag prevented me from
alerting you to it sooner {it was on Monday Night} . As I have to
work I will probably miss it.
I thought the concept of constructing a Glider at Colditz in the basement
was just as brilliantly funny as starting a tunnel in the attic.
I understand it was turned into a museum.....
... Speed kills... install Windows today!
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