If you have seen the 1963 movie, "The
Great Escape", you know about the tunnels named, 'Tom,"
"Dick," and "Harry." This web site shows you
graphically how the digging went
Electric lighting. A railroad. An air ventilation system.
Against incredible odds, the Allied airmen imprisoned at the
Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III secretly engineered these and
other technological marvels 30 feet underground in the three
escape tunnels they named "Tom," "Dick," and "Harry." They
used only tools that they could manufacture themselves out
of tin cans, and they scavenged building materials at great
risk. When they were done, the airmen carried out one of the
greatest mass escapes of all time. Through this interactive
map, drawn after the war by one of the POWs, Ley Kenyon,
explore the remarkable story of Harry, the 300-foot tunnel
that 76 men snuck through during their infamous getaway on
the night of March 24-25, 1944.
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