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Escape and Evasion files at the National Archives
Escape and evasion files are firsthand accounts of a military personnel’s escape from behind enemy lines. In World War II, thousands of U.S. troops crashed in Nazi territory and had to evade capture or escape from German prisons. The National Archives recently digitized 2,953 firsthand accounts of escape and evasion during the war. Each account [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on September 29, 2010, under - World War II.
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