Paul Royle distributed dirt from the 380-foot tunnel the Allied prisoners dug by releasing soil from his pants legs in similar-colored soil. Upon getting away from the camp, he spent two days hiding in a snow-covered forest before he was recaptured.
Flight Lt. Royle was a pilot in the RAF and shot down on May 17, 1940. he was finally liberated by British troops from the Milag Norg prison camp in Germany on May 2, 1945. That was a really long time to be a POW.
He was born in Perth, West Australia in 1914.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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