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Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police.
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Squadron Leader Roger Bushell (right) with Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck.
From left: Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, Leutnant Eberhardt (German security) and Paddy Byrne (fellow POW)
Stalag Luft III mockup.
End of "Harry" tunnel showing how close the exit was to the camp fence
Memorial to "The Fifty" near Żagań, Bushell R.J. on left column
Gravestone of R.J. Bushell in Poznań, PolandAwards 1
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deceased
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Lived 1910 to 1944 · aged 33
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