Major Egan was captured in Westphalia, and after a bombing raid he and other downed pilots were attacked by angry German civilians and nearly killed.He was taken to a transitional prisoner of war camp for interrogation and later transferred to Stalag Luft III.There, he met 100 other comrades, including Craven.Rosenthal and his comrades were sent to a country estate to relax and receive psychological counseling, which Rosenthal refused.Major Crosby attends a conference at Oxford University, where he meets a junior British officer and begins to develop a crush on her, but she is unexpectedly called away.