"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, May 25, 2015
Monday movie
The famous motorcycle scene from The Great Escape, featuring Steve McQueen.
Coincidentally a Polish who tried to escape Colditz ended up in my area and we've just been trying to trace if he met another inmate: 'Tin Legs' Bader.
Bruce: Wasn't "Tin Legs" Bader the gentleman who was shot down and interned in a POW camp, and made so many escape attempts the Germans threatened to take away his prosthetic legs? Quite a man!
'During one visit to Munich, Germany, as a guest of Adolf Galland, he walked into a room full of ex-Luftwaffe pilots and said, "My God, I had no idea we left so many of you bastards alive".' - Pretty typical of his personality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader
He did great work after the war encouraging all the young amputees there used to be.
Coincidentally a Polish who tried to escape Colditz ended up in my area and we've just been trying to trace if he met another inmate: 'Tin Legs' Bader.
ReplyDeleteBruce: Wasn't "Tin Legs" Bader the gentleman who was shot down and interned in a POW camp, and made so many escape attempts the Germans threatened to take away his prosthetic legs? Quite a man!
ReplyDelete'During one visit to Munich, Germany, as a guest of Adolf Galland, he walked into a room full of ex-Luftwaffe pilots and said, "My God, I had no idea we left so many of you bastards alive".'
ReplyDelete- Pretty typical of his personality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader
He did great work after the war encouraging all the young amputees there used to be.