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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 08 > Eric Dowling was key to WWII’s Great Escape

Eric Dowling was key to WWII’s Great Escape

By Jill Lawless / The Bulletin
August 8, 2008

LONDON — Eric Dowling, nicknamed “Digger” for helping excavate tunnels used in the breakout from a World War II German prison camp that became known as the Great Escape, has died. He was 92.

Dowling played a key role in planning the 1944 escape by 76 prisoners from....

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