In March 1944, Allied soldiers dug a tunnel through sandy Polish soil, more than 300 feet in length, to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp. The breakout was made legendary by Steve McQueen in 1963’s “The Great Escape.”
In April 1974, a group of men spent two months digging 135 feet through Georgia red clay, under Marietta’s Roswell Street, for a less noble endeavor.
Led by career criminal Morris Lynn Johnson, the thieves tunneled under the road and used dynamite to steal $22,000 from the Cobb Exchange Bank…