Eric "Digger" Dowling, the English airman who helped excavate the tunnel but was left behind when the Great Escapers crawled out of Stalag Luft III and into history, has died peacefully a day short of his 93rd birthday.
Eric ‘Digger’ Dowling: ‘He was proud the film roughly depicted what happened’
The son of Eric 'Digger' Dowling talks about the man who inspired The Great Escape