After being held captive for nearly two years in a prisoner-of-war camp following 'trials by fire on a scale unprecedented in aerial warfare', Second World War bomber Frank Murphy couldn't believe he lived to tell the tale. As a navigator on the US Air Force's 100th Bomb Group, the then-22-year-old was shot down while flying over Nazi , where he was sent to the infamous Stalag Luft III - a prisoner of war camp depicted in the 1963 hit The Great Escape. For 22 months, Murphy battled freezing conditions, near-starvation and petrifying ordeals, before his eventual liberation on April 29, 1945.
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