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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "France--Besançon"

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Left: A man, wearing an overcoat, hat and with a pipe in his mouth looks down at the citadel's ramparts. Annotated, '1 November 1940', 'Besançon: in der Zitadelle' and 'P.P.'.

Right: View acroiss an open hillside. Annotated, '28 April 1941:…

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Top: View along a river valley to a town with a forested hillside on one bank. Annotated, '1 November 1940: Besançon.', 'Blick von den Zitadelle' and 'P.P.'.

Bottom: A town in a river valley. Annotated, '1 November 1940: Besançon', Blickk von…

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Top: Six men and two women grouped in and around the open door of a coach with luggage on the roof. Annotated, '31 Oktober 1940: Fronttheatre "Kinder! Kinder!"' and 'Auf dem weg nach Besançon'.

Bottom: View along a road to a roman stone arch with…

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Includes photographs of twelve squadron officers, the crashed aircraft, some of the crew, Jack and Mary Newton and Sgt R D Porteous. Recounts the last sortie of the crew to Aachen when they had to jettison their bombs, an engine caught fire and they…