Editor’s note: The 16 th annual Vail Film Festival returns Aug. 15-18. In addition to more than 40 film screenings, the Vail Film Festival also offers a workshop, panel discussion and more while again ...

Of the 35,000 United States Army Air Force personnel captured at Stalag Luft III, a staggering 28,000 were members of the Eighth—the division that included the Bucky's Bloody 100th. According to ...

As incredible as it seems, the POWs — “Kriegies” — played hockey games in the South Compound at Stalag Luft III near Sagan, Germany. The “Great Escape” camp was about 90 miles from Berlin. At the ...

The Long March began at Stalag Luft III, in what is now Zagan, Poland. Stalag Luft III was a prisoner-of-war camp built by the Luftwaffe in March 1942 to detain captured airmen who were part of the ...

SAN ANTONIO-Fighter pilot Bob Inghram didn't know how low he could go after being shot down off the coast of France in a friendly-fire mishap, but the day would come when he slipped 25 feet ...

Captive British airmen devise plans to escape Stalag Luft III prison via tunnels. Captive British airmen make it their mission to escape from a brand new Nazi prison – Stalag Luft III – by building ...

All the letters home from captured British and other Allied airmen pictured Stalag Luft III as one of the best prison camps in Germany. The barracks squatted in a spacious clearing among the pine ...