The great desert escape, how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history, Keith Warren Lloyd
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The great desert escape, how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history, Keith Warren Lloyd
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The great desert escape
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Keith Warren Lloyd
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how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history
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Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp, crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert, and attempted to return battle. It was the only organized, large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in U.S. history
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- Tunnels -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
- Camp Papago Park (Ariz.) -- History
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, American
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- Tunnels -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
- Camp Papago Park (Ariz.) -- History
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, American
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