All’s Well That Ends Well

A Tyneside airman who spent the Second World War carrying out a series of audacious and barely believable PoW escapes is to be honoured by his hometown. Tony Henderson tells the remarkable story of Dominic Bruce

Hebburn to honour Flight Lieutenant Bruce who made 17 escape attempts (many successful) as a prisoner of war of the Germans
He was awarded Military Cross and Air Force Medal — not even Colditz could stop him

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