Jack Harrison (right) was shot down on his first mission in November 1942, to bomb German supply ships at the Dutch port of Den Helder Photo: PA From The Telegraph:
Jack Harrison, a veteran thought to be the last survivor of the prisoner-of-war breakout immortalised in the film The Great Escape, has died.
Harrison, one of scores of Allied servicemen who tried to flee Stalag Luft III during the Second World War, passed away aged 97, his care home said.
The former RAF pilot was waiting to go down the tunnel when the underground escape attempt was noticed, and he frantically burned his forged documentation before changing back into a PoW uniform.
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My Comment: What can I say .... one of my favorite "great" movies. But the men in real life were infinitely more interesting, and the last one is now gone.
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