Born on this day, August 30, in 1910: Roger Bushell, of the "Great Escape"

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Roger Bushell



Bushell in his RAF uniform shortly before his capture

Born: 30 August 1910; Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
Died: 29 March 1944 (aged 33); Ramstein, Germany

Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African-born British military aviator. He is best known as the mastermind of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but was one of the men recaptured and subsequently murdered by the Gestapo.

This is how he was portrayed on film:

The Great Escape (5/11) Movie CLIP - Blitz Out (1963) HD
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Published on Jul 30, 2013

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Hilts (Steve McQueen) and Ives (Angus Lennie) plan to burrow out of the camp like a couple of moles.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. Immediately, the prisoners develop a scheme where they will leave the camp by building three separate escape tunnels. Richard Attenborough is the British soldier who masterminds the whole plan, and who commands his motley squad--featuring Charles Bronson as a Polish trench-digging expert, James Garner as an American with a talent for theft, Donald Pleasence as a masterful forger, and Steve McQueen as an American rebel--through the construction of the tunnels and, eventually, their escape. An epic adventure film, The Great Escape runs nearly three hours, featuring a rousing Elmer Bernstein score and exciting action sequences -- including a notorious motorcycle chase between McQueen and the Nazis -- the likes of which had never been seen before in Hollywood productions.

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1. He was a hero...

Thank you for posting this. Bloody marvellous
And for anyone who has never seen the film, I recommend highly. They should never be forgotten.