Bill Ash escaping activities. He ended the war as a flight lieutenant. In August 2015, the BBC reported: "When Ash died aged 96 last year his obituaries noted that he was said to have been the model for Virgil Hilts, the lean, leather-jacketed airman played by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape"". The character Hilts, nicknamed "The Cooler King" because of the time he spends in the prison camp's punishment block (which the prisoners call the "cooler") for his persistent escape attempts, steals a motorbike and tries to escape to Switzerland but is caught while using it to jump
Great Escape (The Rifles album) the album was "The Pavement's Diaries". The album was released in North America on 15 September 2009 through Nettwerk Music Group. "The Great Escape" was used on the soundtrack of the 2011 video game "Test Drive Unlimited 2. "Winter Calls" was used on a "Dasani" water commercial, and in several episodes of the third series of BBC comedy "Gavin & Stacey". Great Escape (The Rifles album) Great Escape is the second studio album from The Rifles, released on 26 January 2009 after the initial release date of 13 October was delayed. The album delay was somewhat attributed to the length