Dare to Be Free

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Dare to Be Free

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During World War ll South Islander Sandy Thomas was fighting in Crete, when he was wounded and captured by the German Army. Unwilling to spend the war in custody he repeatedly plotted escape from hospital, to the point his Houdini efforts became a running joke among his captors. Nevertheless a successful escape attempt from the Salonika Prisoner of War camp would have him fleeing across the continent on his wounded leg, in an attempt to reunite with his comrades. Now retired, having reached t...

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Video

Date created

2004

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/dare-to-be-free-2004

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pow / prisoner of war / greece / escape / pneumonia / coffin / play dead / crete / germany / turkey / 23rd battalion / south island / sandy thomas / walter babington thomas / major-general / eric batchelor / boat / thessaloniki / salonika / aegean sea / mediterranean / mt athos / paratroopers / mount athos / nz on air / new zealand on air

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