Escape From Bowmanville
POW Camp

“The Canadians have concluded that the art of escape is part of the regular curriculum of the well-trained Nazi soldier, sailor and airman. Even as prisoners the Germans hold their own escape classes and specialize in devising ingenious tools out of anything available. In one camp a workable radio was made out of a typewriter. Most of the prisoners have escaped by tunneling to some point outside the compound, but this is discouraged now by dynamite charges buried around the camps.”

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