Education of the Mind: TIL of the Great Papago Escape, in which 25 German POWs (primarily naval personnel) dug their way out of a Phoenix POW camp in hopes to ride the rapids of the Gila river down to Mexico; It never occurred to the prisoners that most Arizona rivers run dry.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

TIL of the Great Papago Escape, in which 25 German POWs (primarily naval personnel) dug their way out of a Phoenix POW camp in hopes to ride the rapids of the Gila river down to Mexico; It never occurred to the prisoners that most Arizona rivers run dry.

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