Hendley and Blythe jump on a train. Later they jump off near a German air base. They steal a plane, but eventually it crashes. Blythe is shot after the crash and Hendley is brought back to the prison camp. Sedgwick escapes to Spain with the help of the French Resistance.
Hilts is caught and returned to the cooler.
The German Gestapo retaliates for the escape by transporting 50 of the recaptured POWs to an open field and executing them. The Real Escape Download a text version of this page.