On the 24th of March 1944 200 allied POW's attempted to break out of a German prison camp called Stalag Luft 3. This caused much distress for the Germans as they had to use their already limited resources attempting to find missing POWs. The POWs that returned to England gave allied generals detailed information on military targets and the success of already carried air raids. This was the biggest escape in World War 2, and it helped the allied cause enormously. It was the great escape.

Stalag Luft 3 was opened on 1942, it was built to hold the growing numbers of allied airmen being shot down over German occupied soil. This new facility was intended to be a perfect camp-one impossible to escape from. It was built near the German town Sagan about 102 miles south of Berlin. 500 miles from Switzerland and 200 miles to Baltic both of which were targets for POWs...