THE GREATEST ESCAPE:

'Great Escape' war veteran dies (BBC, 1/19/08)

A World War II veteran who took part in the prison camp breakout immortalised in the film The Great Escape has died.

Jimmy James, of Ludlow, Shropshire, died on Friday after being admitted to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. [...]

Mr James took part in 13 escape attempts from prisoner camps during the war and witnessed a number of horrific acts of brutality, Mr Tuck said.