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SThompsonPE172099v10052.pdf
Starts with activities on 29/30 August 1944. Some details of first operation (on Koenigsberg [sic]) and daily activities. Mentions being attacked by fighters, seeing several going down in flames and flying over Sweden. Follows with accounts of…

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YBrooksC1591223v1.pdf
Accounts of activities including operations to Stettin where they were attacked by fighters and crashed in Sweden 5 January 1944. Daily activities in Sweden including skiing, visits by military attaché, other visits all up to 19th March. Includes…

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PBrooksC1809.jpg
Two men, one wearing battledress the other a leather jacket and trilby hat walking down a snow covered road through forest. On the reverse 'Love from Cyril'.

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PBrooksC1806.jpg
View showing wreckage of rear fuselage and turret of a crashed Lancaster in a forest. Swedish Army personnel with rifle stands guard.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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PBrooksC1801.jpg
Two airmen wearing battledress with half brevet, one with hat talking to two women in the street with another man and houses in the background. On the reverse 'Allied flyers in Swedish custody, Feminine company provides agreeable diversion. Sergeants…

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-14.pdf
Geoffrey's story at the end of the Long March.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-070001.jpg
Notes kept by Dixie Deans during an interview with Lieutenant-General (later Sir) Evelyn Hugh Barker (1894-1983), commanding VIII Corps of British 2nd Army.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-05.pdf
The document covers in detail the history from April 1942 to January 1945.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-04.pdf
A detailed account of Dixie's time at the North (Officers) compound March 1943-January 1945.

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PDodwellSL25010015.jpg
Navigation charts for an operation to Neubrandenburg. Annotated 'Neubrandenburg 8/2/45'

Top: Lerwick to Halsingborg including NE Scotland, southern Norway and SE Sweden.

Bottom: Newcastle to Prague showing eastern England and NW Europe.

The…

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ATweddleWD770915-Transcript.pdf
Transcript of taped letter to John. Starts with some discussion of books about the Lancaster with technical and operational details. Describes his early days at RAF Bardney on 9 Squadron. Mentions first operation as second pilot to Kiel V-1 storage.…

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SFoxSFN33506v10001-0002.jpg
Map showing southern Norway and Sweden, Denmark, and North Germany.

PFaircloughT22050001.jpg
Items associated with Tommy having been declared missing and evading. Includes an identity card, two letters and a telegram.

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PFaircloughT22050004.jpg
Tommy writes to his wife that he is safe and well In Sweden.

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PFaircloughT22050003.jpg
Identification card in the name of Peter Hansen with a head and shoulder portrait of Tommy attached.

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NFaircloughT220817-01.jpg
Reporting on the events of Tommy's 43rd and final operation. Describing his escape and commenting on the people of Sweden's view of the ongoing hostilities.

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CChandlerEB-220908-010001.jpg
Two maps described as Top and Lower halves. A scale of 1:3000000 but with a large amount of road, railway and river detail. An inset map has distances between western european ports and the UK.
International boundaries are included from 1/4/40.

NFaircloughT220817-01.jpg
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,…

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MFaircloughT1077120-220817-12.pdf
A booklet containing various documents including a certificate expressing thanks to Frederik Christian Oscar Körvel for the help provided to evading combatants. Personal accounts of the events following the crash of a mine-laying Lancaster including…

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MFaircloughT1077120-220817-07.pdf
Discusses the aftermath of a crash involving Bomber Command Lancaster in Denmark. Frederik Körvel complaints about people constantly asking him for information. He discusses two airman who came down in the same area, one being injured. He also talks…

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LFaircloughT1077120v2.pdf
Flying log book for observers and air gunners for Tommy Fairclough from 9 July 1942 to September 1945, detailing his training and operational duties. Tommy flew 43 operations, 33 night time and ten daylight as wireless operator/air gunner in…

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ERasmussenBSlaterS760424.pdf
A communication from Borge Rasmussen (a former member of the Danish Resistance) to Stan Slater, researching escaped airmen and requesting any further information. He recalls the events, following the crash of Stan's aircraft, including the deaths of…

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LFaircloughT1077120v1.pdf
Flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers for Tommy Fairclough from 9 July 1942 to 12 March 1945, detailing his training and operational duties. Tommy flew 43 operations, 33 night time and ten daylight as wireless…

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BFaircloughNTSFaircloughTv1.pdf
Tommy's great grand daughter describes his period of service. Includes the incidence when pilot Stan Slater's Lancaster was set on fire and he tried to dive to put the fire out but was unsuccessful. Tommy bailed out by parachute and was taken in by…

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SDaviesIDW1515585v10002.jpg
A trimmed chart of Sweden with some airfields marked.