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Old 11-12-2023, 08:39 AM
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Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley ('The Scrounger'): American RAF officer.
The only American involved in actual escape.
The Hollywood film makers insisted on putting in the other characters purely as box office appeal.
My father is William Little Calder Jones. He was a big part of the escape but didn't actually escape. He is an American, but joined the RCAF in 1939 to get in the war. He was consulted when they were making the film, and went to the premiere. I hope you aren't insinuating the I was telling a big windy.
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