The Great Escape, March 1944

ID: 687 ~ Source: Imperial War Museum ~ Creator: German official photographer. ~ Date: March 1944
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Tins of "Klim" dried milk tins fitted together by POWs for air pump at Stalag Luft III, Sagan. POWs at Stalag Luft III found many uses for these cans including creating the wings with balls and chains Hicks describes here.

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By Crawford Hicks
“We were grounded flyers and we had our wings, but we came up with, somebody in the camp came up with a symbol for us which was our wings with a chain and a ball attached to it. So we used our dog tag chains and the cans of food we got from red…