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AFTER 40 hours of freedom—a little less than an hour for each laborious foot they tunnelled under the earth to escape—these German prisoners of war were recaptured yesterday. They are ten of the 70 who broke out of their camp at Bridgend, Glamorgan. There were S.S. Troopers, Luftwaffe pilots, and naval men among them. This exclusive Daily Mail picture shows the men on their way back to camp from a Glamorgan railway station.
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Coast Watch for 27 SS Men
Summary: Shortly before midnight, Scotland Yard instructed all Flying Squad patrol cars to monitor roads leading to the London area for German prisoners who escaped from Bridgend, Glamorganshire.
From EDWIN DAVIES, Daily Mail Reporter Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Monday Night.
NEVER before has there been a man-hunt such as this one. The fugitives are 27 German S.S. troopers, Luftwaffe pilots, and naval men who for more than 40 hours now have evaded recapture after 70 men tunnelled to freedom from a prisoner-of-war camp at Bridgend.
The hunters are British and U.S. Forces armed with rifles and tommy-guns, Home Guards, police, civilians, and boys and girls.
Headquarters of the search, which has now extended well over the Welsh border into England, is the market town of Bridgend, in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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News Chronicle March 14 1945
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Four more escaped Nazis recaptured
FOUR more of the 70 Germans who escaped from a prison camp near Bridgend, Glamorgan, on Sunday, were recaptured yesterday, leaving 21 still at large.
Three of the four were caught in South Wales. The other was taken near the Severn Tunnel.
The picture on the left shows the hole through which the 70 men, who tunnelled under the barbed-wire fence of their camp, passed to freedom.