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RE: Tom, Dick, Harry and George, The Great Canadian POW Escape From Luft Stalag III, Near Sagan, Poland 1944.
Very nice post. I can tell I need a trip up to your neck of the woods one day soon.
If you want to read a fascinating book, it's called something like "Escape from Colditz". It is a fascinating account of these fellows and others, and their incredible ingenuity. Even if war stories are not your thing, the stuff they came up with was absolutely amazing from the human ingenuity perspective. I think the article @mainenigma describes about the plane is in a second book. Hard to fathom. Thanks for the posts on history.
It's absolutely wild what they used to make the glider with.
Lots of porridge as glue and starch to make the sheets used on the wings of the glider stiff.
I always ask myself, "what would I do, if it were me in that situation?"
That's why continuing to learn is so important...so that you can strengthen your skills and lean on them if you ever need to.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Hard to keep the rats and mice away from eating your plane while waiting to escape too. Didn't know about the porridge and starch. Classic.
I guess the adage about porridge sticking to your ribs is true, especially the sticky part.:)
"Sticks to your ribs, and GREAT for plastering together a flying machine". Maybe we can go in together, sell that to Vern's Porridge Co. , get rich and split the proceeds. Then again, maybe we should stick to Steemit posting...
LOL! Steemit and porridge. Things that stick with you.
there was a team of enthusiasts in England a few years ago that built a replica of the glider, using the tools and equipment the men had available to them in Colditz. (with a couple of exceptions for safety).
They then test flew it...... and it worked! They confirmed that if it had been launched then it wold have flown as intended.
As you said, remarkable men.
Yes! @mainenigma posted the link to the story about the POWs housed in the Colditz castle.
You can view the newspaper article link at the top of this thread.
It's an absolutely fantastic story of tenacity and determination to be free from captivity.
It's hard to believe what can be cobbled together with boards, sheets and porridge.
Thanks for sharing @trevor.george! I really appreciate it. :)