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The making of "The Great Escape" Tunnel

Very, very cool!!!!!!  I've seen the movie, now I want to watch it again! 

THE TUNNEL THAT MADE THE GREAT ESCAPE POSSIBLE

I thought you might find this interesting, especially if

you saw the movie, "The Great Escape" with Steve

McQueen. When the graphics appear, move cursor over

the number (no need to click) to display an explanation of

activity. Make sure you take the tour. It's really something

to see. This may be one of the most amazing e-mails I've

seen. The last number to 'roll over' is 16. Be sure to look and

read the numbers and click 'next' to move along.

In 1943 work had begun on 'Harry', the tunnel that

allowed over 70 men to escape from the German POW

camp, 'Stalag III', during World War II. This was the same

tunnel made famous by the movie 'The Great Escape'.

The URL below takes you to a site where one of the men,

after the War, drew a diagram with explanations of each of

the sections. It's amazing how accurate the movie was,

even though it couldn't possibly include all the information

involved in this great engineering feat. Hope you find this

as interesting as I did.

http://www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html