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A prisoner of war letter form sent by Captain Pat Campbell-Preston from POW Camp VIIb. While held at Camp VIIb he was part of 'The Eichstatt Tunnel Escape', where on the night of June 3–4, 1943, as leader of the escape along with 65 officers, they managed to escape from the camp.
Prior to this he was also part of an escape that took place on 30th August 1942, where Campbell-Preston had previously also been recaptured from 'The Warburg Wire Job' (Operation Olympia), which was another mass escape attempt. RAOC officer Major B.D. "Skelly" Skelton Ginn fused the perimeter floodlights, 41 prisoners carrying four 12-foot (3.7 m) scaling ladders made from bed slats rushed to the barbed-wire fence and clambered over. Of the 41 involved, only 28 escaped the camp, and only three of those made it home, he was then sent to Camp VIIb.
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