Remembering Alex Cassie: A Key Figure in ‘The Great Escape’
The Great Escape movie poster. (Wiki Commons)
The World’s Alex Gallafent remembers Alex Cassie, who’s died aged 95. Cassie was an officer in the British RAF who was captured by the Germans during World War Two. His document-forging work in a prisoner-of-war camp was immortalized in the movie “The Great Escape.”
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