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Any guesstimate on how many '69 Runners are left?

John69RR

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I'm lucky enough to have one also. Guess that makes 8 so far. I know of at least 4 more not too far from me. Tried to get them to join us here. I have never been to Gettysburg, but it on my "Bucket List". Basketcase, here is an interesting WW2 link on the "Great Escape" tunnels.

“The Great Escape” ~Tunnels of WW II
Stalag III—- Tunnels
When graphics appear, move cursor over the number (no need to click) to
display an explanation of activity.
Make sure you take the tour. It’s really something to see.
This may be one of the most amazing e-mails I’ve seen. The last number
to ‘roll over’ is 16. Be sure to look and read the numbers and click
‘next’ to move along.
In 1943 work had begun on ‘Harry’, the tunnel that allowed over 70 men
to escape from the German POW camp, ‘Stalag III’, during World War II.
This was the same tunnel made famous by the movie ‘The Great Escape’.
The URL below takes you to a site where one of the men, after the War,
drew a diagram with explanations of each of the sections.
It’s amazing how accurate the movie was, even though it couldn’t
possibly include all the information involved in this great engineering
feat. Hope you can ge t this to open and you find this as interesting
as I did.
http://www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html
 

69hemibeep

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My one and only trip back east, Gettysburg was our first stop. What a blood bath that had to be.
 

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thanks John, I'll check that out. At the US Air Force Museum, they have a display of items from Luft Stalag 1. Various things like a painting of a dream girl thought up by the POWs, a working clock made from carboard. Included are things such as venalation systems used in escape tunnels.
 

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Ok, then. I guess I've got no. 9, and alos lucky to have it. And I know of one less, which would have been my first runner. The guy I sold it to only had it about a month and totaled it. :toetap:
 

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well i will take the 11th spot and put 1 more on the no longer with us list. if i had the space i would have picked it up just for parts but it is gone now
 

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Wow...talk about bringing up an old thread. Over 5 years old. There are a lot of names I haven't seen here in quite a while. Not sure, but this might have even been before Mac's registry.
 
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