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Great Escape hero dies aged 87

Celebrated war hero Bill Dean has died in hospital at the age of 87.

Bill, a survivor of the notorious camp that gave birth to the film The Great Escape, died in his sleep in Salford Royal Hospital on Tuesday, March 9.




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