WWII Diary reveals Great Escape plot
Coded plans for "The Great Escape" have been found in the diary of a World War II airman from Greater Manchester.
Ted Nestor was a prisoner of war (POW) at the camp where 77 Allied officers managed to dig a tunnel and escape.
His journal includes stories of camp life, cartoons and even a coded reference to the mass breakout.
Now, 20 years after his death, his daughter Sharon Cottam has visited Stalag Luft III in Poland and learned that her father was a war hero.
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Ted Nestor was a prisoner of war (POW) at the camp where 77 Allied officers managed to dig a tunnel and escape.
His journal includes stories of camp life, cartoons and even a coded reference to the mass breakout.
Now, 20 years after his death, his daughter Sharon Cottam has visited Stalag Luft III in Poland and learned that her father was a war hero.