Word: tunnell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later on, the German camp authorities became less efficient. In March 1944, using a patiently dug tunnel, some 80 P.O.W.s crushed out of Stalag-Luft III in a single night. Yet only a few escaped from Nazi territory. Of those recaptured, the Germans reported they shot...
...Peter and John hid inside it, while other prisoners carried it outdoors and set it up in front of a guard box. Almost every afternoon for the next four months the P.O.W.s vaulted tirelessly while Peter and John took turns burrowing away with a trowel at their ever-lengthening tunnel. The loose sand was packed into bags made from trouser legs. The bags were hung inside the wooden horse while the men were digging; later the sand was scattered in latrines, tomato patches, or under the prisoners' huts. Each time the diggers meticulously smoothed the original topsoil over...
...Forest. The guards never caught on. One reason: the thud of landing vaulters blanketed any vibrations from the digging which might have been picked up by the Germans' detecting devices. One October afternoon the two diggers, with a third man who had helped them, went down into their tunnel, more than 100 feet long. After scrambling out of the tunnel, they rolled into a ditch outside the camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling...