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- Nigel Hunt, George Hunt
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- Stalag Luft 3 Poland
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- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6982310
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 15 November 2005
My father was a prisoner of war in Poland; he was shot down in one of the ‘Thousand Bomber’ raids in 1942 that Bomber Harris launched against Germany. His hut mates had built a secret radio and hidden it under a table their room.
The Germans knew a radio was being used and would regularly search the room. They would march in remove the table and completely search the room, of course missing the radio every time, still fixed under the table.
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