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Stalag Luft IV
Groß Tychow (Tychowo), Pomerania
Stalag Luft IV monument
Stalag Luft IV is located in Germany
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV is located in Poland
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV
Coordinates53°56′33″N 16°10′34″E / 53.9425°N 16.1761°E / 53.9425; 16.1761
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled byStalag Luft IV Nazi Germany
Site history
In use1944–1945
Battles/warsWorld War II
Garrison information
Occupantsmainly American Air Force NCOs, and also British, Canadian, Polish, Australian, New Zealand and other Allied POWs

Stalag Luft IV was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Gross Tychow, Pomerania (now Tychowo, Poland). It housed mostly American POWs, but also Britons, Canadians, Poles, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Czechs, Frenchmen and a Norwegian.

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a South African RAF aviator. He masterminded the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently...

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Edgar Humphreys

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during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo...

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Bram van der Stok

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most decorated aviator in Dutch history. In March 1944, he broke out of Stalag Luft III – a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany – during the mass break-out...

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Hedley Fowler

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was returned to Stalag Luft I and sentenced to 14 days solitary confinement, before being transferred to the 'escape proof' camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle...

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