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Island Farm and the Great German POW Escape, talk at NWM 17 March

Island Farm and the Great German POW Escape

National Waterfront Museum, Thursday 17 March at 2pm. Admission free.

The story of the biggest escape of German prisoners from a British prison camp, Island Farm in Bridgend, during the Second World War: a story of incompetence which makes Dad’s Army seem to be an effective and efficient fighting force.

With Historian Mike Clubb and in partnership with Swansea U3A.

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/swansea/whatson/8812/Island-Farm-and-the-Great-German-POW-Escape/