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Flight Lt. Alex Cassie - Stalag Luft III Forger, Rest in Peace, Sir

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  1. rkline56

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    (Newser) – Flight Lt. Alex Cassie, the British bomber pilot whose work as a forger of Nazi documents was immortalized in The Great Escape, has died, reports the New York Times. He was 95. Seventy-six prisoners of war escaped from the Stalag Luft III camp in eastern Germany on March 24 and 25, 1944, crawling through a 340-foot-long tunnel. But 73 were soon re-captured and 50 were executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler. Cassie was supposed to be an escapee, but as he suffered from claustrophobia and was worried he would impede others in the narrow tunnel, he chose to stay behind.

    Great Escape Forger Dead at 95 - Flight Lt. Alex Cassie key figure in mass breakout of German camp in WWII

    http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/12114/1226443-122.stm

    The world will miss these great men as we have missed those who passed before them.
     
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    Be at peace, Flight Lt. Cassie. :S!
     
    TD-Tommy776, Apr 25, 2012
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    Have a safe flight, sir.
     
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    :poppy: Rest in Peace Flight Lt.:poppy:
     
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    May he rest in peace :poppy:
     
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    Rest in Peace
    Job well Done
     
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