SECTION ONE
The formal portrait Bill sent home in 1941. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
Bill with his sister Adele at home in Dallas in 1925. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
Bill during training. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
At the controls of his Spitfire in late 1941. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King greets Bill during a visit to 411 Squadron. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
At dispersal, waiting for action, Digby, late summer 1941. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
411 pilots just before or after an operation.
Bill is entertained by Buck McNair. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
The church at Vieille Église today. (Patrick Bishop)
The house where the Boulanger family once had their estaminet. (Patrick Bishop)
The cover of Bill’s prisoner-of-war file at Stalag Luft III. (Courtesy of Brendan Foley)
Sketch map of Stalag Luft III. (The National Archives)
SECTION TWO
Stalag Luft III, c. 1944. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Watchtower at Stalag Luft III, c. 1942. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Robert Kee, 1951. (John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Getty Images)
Wing Commander Harry Day briefs Kenneth Moore for his role as Douglas Bader in Reach for the Sky (1955). (Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)
Prisoners laying the foundations for a hut in Stalag Luft III. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Prisoners in a hut in Stalag Luft III, 1943. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Prisoners and camp staff in the Red Cross parcel store, Stalag Luft III. (© IWM, HU 20926)
Prisoners prepare a news sheet, Stalag Luft III. (© IWM, HU 20928)
Prisoners tend their garden at Stalag Luft III. (© IWM, HU 20930)
A church service for POWs at Stalag Luft III, c. 1944. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
An American military funeral at Stalag Luft III, February 1945. (Topfoto/The Granger Collection, New York)
The avenue leading away from Stalag Luft III. (© James Finlay, www.jamesfinlay.com)
Halbau today. (© James Finlay, www.jamesfinlay.com)
Liberated POWs at Marlag und Milag Nord at Westertimke, 29 April 1945. (© IWM, BU 4835)
Release of prisoners in Westertimke Camp, 5 May 1945. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Steve McQueen in The Great Escape (1963). (© John Springer Collection/Corbis)