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Squadron Leader 'Jimmy' James Last Updated: 1:43am GMT 22/01/2008 Squadron Leader "Jimmy" James, who died on January 18 aged 92, was an inveterate escaper during his five years in captivity during the Second World War. James was one of the few to escape execution after the Great Escape, and joined two others at the notorious death camp at Sachsenhausen, from where he made another daring escape by tunnel, only to be recaptured 10 days later. He had already made a number of unsuccessful escape attempts by the time he arrived at Stalag Luft III, near Sagan, in the spring of 1943...

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