Archeologists have located lost tunnel from the Great Escape POW camp
Archeologists have located the last “Great Escape” tunnel dug by Allied prisoners during World War II.
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Archeologists have located the last “Great Escape” tunnel dug by Allied prisoners during World War II.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Among the many prisoners at Stalag Luft III were two of the Doolittle Raiders. They were David “Davey” Jones and Thomas Griffin. Jones had been the pilot of the #5 B-25 and Griffin the navigator of the #9 B-25. Both bombed Tokyo and both were shot down flying missions out of North Africa later in the war. Jones was the head of the team digging the tunnel named Harry. Griffin was also a tunneler. When shot down they were imprisoned with British fliers.They were transferred to an American compound within the camp before the escape took place.
The excavation of Harry by archeologists became an episode of Nova on PBS in 2004. Major General Jones returned to Stalag Luff III for the dig and was featured in the episode. He passed away in 2008 12 days before the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Major Griffin was the keynote speaker at Pearl Harbor for the 67th anniversary of the attack.