Wing Commander Henry Kenneth 'Shag' Rees, Royal Air Force
WWII bomber pilot; shot down over Norway, captured by the Germans and sent to the PoW officers' camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland) where he helped build the escape tunnel used in what became known as the 'Great Escape' of 24 March 1944 which was the basis for the 1963 film based on Flight Lieutenant Paul Brickhill's 1950 memoir; post-war RAF pilot, instructor, and station commander.Wing Commander Henry Kenneth 'Shag' Rees, Royal Air Force
WWII bomber pilot; shot down over Norway, captured by the Germans and sent to the PoW officers' camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland) where he helped build the escape tunnel used in what became known as the 'Great Escape' of 24 March 1944 which was the basis for the 1963 film based on Flight Lieutenant Paul Brickhill's 1950 memoir; post-war RAF pilot, instructor, and station commander....more
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