Home from Sweden

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Title

Home from Sweden

Description

Reporting on Tommy's safe return from his 43rd and final operation in which his aircraft was shot down and his evasion with Squadron Leader Slater. Mentions the Swedish people's view of ongoing hostilities. The report also says that Tommy's brother, Flight Sergeant Herbert Fairclough, was in hospital suffering from burns, following an accident.

Date

1945

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

One newspaper cutting

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

NFaircloughT220817-01

Collection

Citation

The Morley Observer, “Home from Sweden,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 8, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/53259.