Dominic Bruce
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title:
Dominic Bruce
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Dominic Bruce, was a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man." He has been described as "the most ingenious escaper" of the Second World War. He made seventeen attempts at escaping from POW camps, including several attempts to escape from Colditz Castle, a castle that housed prisoners of war "deemed incorrigible". He was named by Jim Rogers as one of the ten 'Kings of Colditz', the men who "dedicated their waking hours only to the idea of escaping". Famed for his time in
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British RAF officer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Bruce
date created:
2011-08-04T09:49:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T15:02:17Z
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