207639 Lt. Victor Mundell South African Air Force 1 Squadron from:17 Queen St, Queenstown, Rodesia My father-in-law, Victor Mundell, was a Spitfire pilot and was shot down in Tripolitania on the 16th of April 1943. Landing in a cactus field where he was captured by local Arabs, who later sold him to the Germans for a bag of flour. He was taken to Stalag Luft 3 and was a penguin during the building of the tunnels for the Great Escape, but did not make the list for escape. We don't know which compound he was in or what happened in the last months of the war but he arrived in England on the 9/5/1945. We would be interested to hear from anyone else who had relatives in the SAAF in Stalag Luft 3
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