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Paul Royle, an Australian pilot who took part in a mass breakout from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that is remembered as the Great Escape, has died in his hometown of Perth. He was 101.
The escape was the subject of a 1963 Hollywood movie, "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen.

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