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Mar 7, 2020 · It was the biggest Prisoner of War escape attempt in Britain - as 70 German World War Two PoWs tried to tunnel to freedom. Now, 75 years on from the breakout on the 10 March, 1945, hundreds of...
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- April 27, 1936: Joseph Bowers
- December 16, 1937: Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe
- May 23, 1938: Rufus Franklin, Thomas R. Limerick and James C. Lucas
- May 21, 1941: Joe Cretzer, Sam Shockley, Arnold Kyle, Lloyd Barkdoll
- September 15, 1941: John Richard Bayless
- April 14, 1943: James Boarman, Harold Brest, Floyd Hamilton, Fred Hunter
- August 7, 1943: Huron Ted Walters
- July 31, 1945: John K. Giles
- July 23, 1956: Floyd Wilson
- September 29, 1958: Aaron Burgett, Clyde Johnson
Escape or suicide? Debate continues over how to classify the first-ever attempt to fly the Alcatraz coop. Joseph Bowers, called a loner and desperado by his fellow inmates (and described by some as criminally insane), was serving a 25-year sentence for mail robbery when, one afternoon while working at the trash incinerator, he tried to scale a fenc...
For their escape, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe filed their way through flat-iron prison window bars and raced for the San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately for the two convicted Oklahoma bank robbers, their timing couldn't have been worse. A particularly bad sea storm is believed to have swept Cole and Roe away to their deaths.
First, this trio attacked prison guard Royal Cline with a hammer, inflicting fatal injuries. Then, as they attempted to overtake the prison’s guard tower, Limerick and Franklin were shot. Limerick died from his injuries. Lucas and Franklin, recaptured and charged with Cline’s murder, were both sentenced to death.
More hijacking than escape, the attempt of these four began and ended with the prisoners taking several of Alcatraz’s correction officers hostage—including Paul Madigan, who would become the penitentiary’s third warden. Madigan and the officers, however, gained the upper hand after convincing the robbers they’d never be able to escape after the pri...
Bayless was out on garbage detail when he decided to make a run for it. But one hit of the frigid waters proved too much, as Bayless quickly reconsidered and gave up. One failed attempt wasn’t enough to permanently deter Bayless, however. While appearing in court to appeal his sentence, he tried (unsuccessfully) to escape the courtroom.
These four inmates used prison-made knives to take two correctional officers hostage, binding and gaggingthem before escaping through a prison window and leaping into the San Francisco Bay. Before they got too far, however, one of the guards who'd been taken hostage escaped and raised the alert. While attempting to swim away, the four were fired at...
Huron Ted Walters was working in the prison’s laundry room when he made his break for freedom. But like many before him, he didn’t even make it to the water, being apprehended by officers at the shoreline.
Technically speaking, John Giles did escape off the island. While a prisoner at Alcatraz, Giles’s job was to unload dirty army laundry from the loading dock to be cleaned at the penitentiary. One morning, at about 10:40 a.m., after spending several years piecing togethera uniform resembling a U.S. Army technical sergeant, Giles calmly walked out of...
Floyd Wilson disappeared from his job one morning while working as a stevedore on the Alcatraz dock. His sudden absence ignited a nearly 12-hour manhunt that eventually found the escapee hiding inside the depression of a rock along Alcatraz’s shore.
While working as garbage workers , robbers Burgett and Johnson overpowered, bound and gagged an officer at knifepoint before attempting to swim from the island. The two were no match for the tides, however. Johnson was caught by officers while in the water and Burgett’s body was found floating in the bay two days later.
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Escape Attempt: With Anna Burnett, Piotr Witkowski, Andrzej Chyra, Ieuan Coombs. A soldier escaping a WWII concentration camp finds himself on an unknown planet in a distant future only to discover a frozen gulag controlled by a brutal alien race.
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- Anna Burnett, Piotr Witkowski, Andrzej Chyra
- Anna Burnett, Piotr Witkowski, Andrzej Chyra
- Oliver Philpot and the Wooden Horse. © IWM (EPH 6364) Oliver Philpot was one of three men to make a successful escape from Stalag Luft III in 1943. Philpot, together with Eric Williams and Michael Codner, used a wooden vaulting horse positioned close to the perimeter fence as a disguise for a tunnel which they were constructing underneath the horse.
- Jimmy James and the Great Escape. © IWM (UNI 8100) The most famous POW breakout is the 'Great Escape' in March 1944 from Stalag Luft III, a camp which held Allied aircrew.
- Airey Neave and his 'Home Run' from Colditz. Lieutenant Airey Neave was the first British officer to make a successful escape from Colditz, one of the most famous POW camps.
- Mike Scott and the Eichstätt tunnel. © IWM (EPH 4528) Mike Scott was one of 65 officers who escaped from Oflag VIIB, at Eichstätt in Bavaria through a tunnel in June 1943.
Mar 24, 2024 · The Great Escape was a mass breakout of Allied airmen from Stalag Luft III, a prison camp run by the Luftwaffe (German air force), on March 24, 1944. It involved 600 prisoners at the camp,...
Feb 4, 2022 · A former Army sniper serving a life sentence for a murder on Orkney has admitted attempting to escape from one of Scotland's highest security prisons. Michael Ross, 43, tried to climb a fence...
