The Great Escape: A Canadian Story (40 page)

16.
“see their faces”: Wally Floody, quoted by Ron Lowman, “Airmen still see the faces of comrades slain by Nazis,”
Toronto Star
, March 25, 1984.

17.
“terrible nightmares last night”: Hehner, p. 122.

18.
“about the tunnels”: Wally Floody, quoted in Arthur Moses, “Prisoners and guard from Stalag Luft III reminisce about war and the Great Escape,”
Globe and Mail
, August 1970.

19.
“degrading their manpower”: George Sweanor interview, July 5–7, 2011.

20.
“my alma mater”: Ibid.

21.
“in every culture”: George Sweanor, “Bomber Command, 1939–1945,” 971 Air Marshal Slemon Wing, RCAF Association Newsletter, November 2011.

22.
“the war in jail”: Nick Dumonceaux, quoted in email correspondence with his mother, Anne Dumonceaux, Port McNeill, BC, September 12, 2012.

23.
“as we all grew up”: Stephen Sorensen, interview, Howe Island, Ontario, August 13, 2011.

24.
“why did you stay”: Vicki Sorensen, interview, Howe Island, Ontario, August 13, 2011.

25.
“when I was a teen”: Glenn Sorensen, interview, Howe Island, Ontario, August 13, 2011.

26.
“a visual perspective”: Barbara Edy, correspondence from Calgary, Alberta, April 6, 2013.

27.
“Germany’s war effort”: Ibid.

28.
“organize to be successful”: Pengelly, “X for Escape.”

29.
“bravery, spirit, and talent”: Op cit.

30.
“these wonderful machines”: David Pengelly, interview, Dundas, Ontario, June 19, 2012.

31.
“do you have a little more”: Ibid.

32.
“watched it all the time”: Chris Pengelly, interview, Milford, Ontario, May 8, 2011.

first section

page

1. Whitley interior and barracks room, Tony Pengelly collection; four POWs, Imperial War Museums hu-1604; Roger Bushell, US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library, Stalag Luft III Collections.

2. East Compound, Imperial War Museums hu-21013; Sentry tower interior, Barry Davidson collection; North Compound, US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library, Stalag Luft III Collections.

3. Barry Davidson, Barry Davidson collection; Dick Bartlett, courtesy Anne Dumonceaux; Keith Ogilvie, courtesy Keith Ogilvie Jr. and Jean Ogilvie; Kingsley Brown, 1945 sketch by Lieut. John Lundquist, USAAF, courtesy Ethel Alle.

4. Sketches of digger, workshop, and trap entrance to tunnel, sketches by Ley Kenyon, Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, UK.

5. German guard and prisoner assembly at Stalag Luft III, Imperial War Museums hu-21043; Biewer and Lindeiner, Imperial War Museums hu-21052; German “ferret” guards, Imperial War Museums hu-21190.

6. John Colwell POW card, courtesy Harold Johnstone; Frank Sorensen, courtesy Vicki Sorensen; Canadians at North Compound, Tony Pengelly collection.

7. Aerial intelligence photo of Stalag Luft III 1944, Don McKim collection.

8. George Sweanor and Joan Saunders, courtesy Sweanor family; Don Edy in desert, courtesy Barb Edy and Jane Hughes; George Harsh, courtesy W. W. Norton & Co., New York.

second section

page

1. Theatre sketch by Ley Kenyon, courtesy Barry Davidson Jr.; Tony Pengelly in female role and theatre interior seating area, Tony Pengelly collection; Arthur Crighton conductor from Wire Bound World by H. P. Clark.

2. Baseball team “Clare’s Cards,” courtesy Art Hawtin; hockey game, Barry Davidson collection; boxing match, Imperial War Museums hu-21164.

3. Don McKim, courtesy Al McKim and Wendy Johnson; Albert Wallace, Albert Wallace collection; Red Cross parcel, Wire Bound World by
H. P. Clark; wireless radio, photographer Harold Kious, US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library, Stalag Luft III Collections.

4. Sketches of February purge to Belaria and March escape from tunnel “Harry,” sketches by Ley Kenyon, Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, UK.

5. Guards show off trolley, Imperial War Museums hu-21219; guards and ventilating pump, Imperial War Museums hu-21215; guard with sand-dispersal sacks, Imperial War Museums.

6. Massey and Pieber, Imperial War Museums hu-1603; Arthur Nebe, courtesy documentarian/filmmaker Don Young.

7. The Great Escape 1962 movie publicity stills, Catherine (Floody) Heron collection.

8. POWs marching from Sagan, Poland, courtesy Marilyn Walton, US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library, Stalag Luft III Collections; British POWs sign, Wire Bound World by H. P. Clark; Ley Kenyon sketch, Frank Sorensen collection, courtesy Vicki Sorensen.

Copyright © Ted Barris,
2013

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems—without the prior written permission of the publisher, or in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Barris, Ted, author

The great escape : a Canadian story / Ted Barris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

isbn
978-1-77102-272-9 (bound).—
isbn
978-1-77102-474-7 (epub).—

1. Stalag Luft III. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Prisoners and prisons, German.

3. Prisoners of war—Canada—Biography. 4. Prisoners of war—Germany—

Biography. 5. Prisoner-of-war escapes—Poland—Zagan. 6. World War,

1939-1945—Personal narratives, Canadian. I. Title.

d805.5.s73b37 2013 940.54'72430922 c2013-902860-9

c2013-902861-7

Jacket and text design: Gordon Robertson

Jacket image: Tony Pengelly Collection

Endpaper illustrations: Lightfoot Art & Design Inc.

Published by Thomas Allen Publishers,
a division of Thomas Allen & Son Limited,
390 Steelcase Road East,
Markham, Ontario l3r 1g2 Canada

www.thomasallen.ca

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

We acknowledge the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.