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• white plans for Colditz glider

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  First plans drawn in pencil on artist's paper for the 'Colditz Cock' by Flight Lieutenant Bill Goldfinch. The plans were also later used for building the 'Spirit of Colditz', a replica for the Channel Four television series on Colditz. At the beginning...

• pink plans for Colditz glider

  (souvenirs and ephemera) 1945

  Plans for the construction of an escape glider (the 'Colditz Cock') based on the designs of Flight-Lieutenant L J E Goldfinch produced during the Second World War whilst he was a prisoner of war in Oflag IVC, Colditz Camp (Saxony, Germany). At the...

• An Impression of the Commemorative Vault built at Sagan showing Officers Working in the Grounds of Stalag Luft III Cemetery

  (art) Made by: Kenyon, B Ley 1944-07-01

  image: A alter-like memorial marked with crosses and the RAF's eagle motif. In front of the memorial there are two men who have stopped digging and are looking at the monument.

• compass, as used by Oliver Philpot during his escape from Stalag Luft III

  (equipment)

  Oliver Philpot (1913-1993), Canadian by birth, first came to the UK to study at Oxford. He joined the RAFVR, and was a pilot in 42 Torpedo/Bomber Squadron. He was assigned to RAF Coastal Command in 1940. He was shot down off the coast of Norway in 1941,...

• carpenter's plane (used glider for construction)

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Carpenter's plane used in the construction of the Second World War 'Colditz Cock' escape glider. For full description of this escape project see EPH 637. The plane was also used in other escape schemes. Flight Lieutenant Jack Best, who helped build the...

• saw (for construction of glider)

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Saw used in the construction of the Second World War 'Colditz Cock' escape glider. For full description of this ingenious escape project see EPH 637. Flight Lieutenant Jack Best (RAF), who helped build the glider, later described the origins and history...

• tin can, from tunnel in Colditz

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Canada Packers Limited, Canada

  removed from a tunnel in Colditz castle; believed to have been used in helping the construction of the tunnel. Issued to Exhibitions for Great Escapes -Returned October 2006.

• Feeding Liberated Prisoners-of-War before they are Flown Home, Brussels Air Port, 1945

  (art) Made by: Zinkeisen, Doris Clare 1945

  image: The interior of what appears to be an aircraft hangar being used as a canteen with a view out onto an airfield. Within the hangar on the right an assortment of liberated military personnel, formerly prisoners-of-war, sit at circular tables eating...

• ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT OFLAG IVC, COLDITZ

  part of "BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR 1939 - 1945" (photographs) Made by: German official photographer 1941

  Group of Allied POWs, pilots of various air forces, in the courtyard of the Colditz Castle, Oflag IVC, in front of, probably, the French contingent quarters. From left to right: Front row - unidentified airman; Second Lieutenant of the Polish Air Force (...

• DULAG LUFT PRISONER OF WAR TRANSIT CAMP

  part of "GRIFFITHS GUY (CAPTAIN)" Made by: Giffiths G (Capt)

  Christmas lunch with fellow prisoners at Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe.