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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-05"

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Brief outline biography. Covers origin, training as air gunner, operational tour 466 Squadron, commission, training tour, back to operations 77 Squadron and other activities. Life after war back in Australia.

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Gives details of flights many for meteorological reconnaissance. Some details on 517 Squadron. Entries from 1944-08-17 to 1946-04-03. Some comments on flights and postings. First page has photographs of three men in swimming gear on a beach…

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Harold was shot down in 1942 and swam for hours off Cape Gris Nez before being picked up by the Germans. Ended up in Stalag Luft 111, where he met Dixie Deans, the early founder of the Tally Ho Escaping club. He arrived at Fallingbostel in August…

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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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Molly Deans was the wife of James ‘Dixie’ Deans who was the leader of several prisoner of war camps after he was shot down in September 1940. She describes the struggle to find out what had happened to him after he was posted as missing. She received…

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Brief history of 429 Squadron (RCAF). Follows outline of Victor Garland wartime history including time in air training corps, training on Halifax, operations on 429 Squadron. Mentions some incidents while training and on operations. Mentions…

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A second page 29 of Marjorie's diary. Two newspaper cuttings with part of the previous page, referring to the end od the war in Europe.

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Including photographs, notes, cartoons and newspaper cutting details of Stan's early life and gaining his pilot's licence aged 18. He married and was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and transferred to Canada to train as a flying instructor at…

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Albert Edward Clayton and other members of Signals Section HQ, No. 5 Group, RAF, May 1945. On accompanying note: 'Clayton GPO Sigs'. Albert Edward Clayton is fourth from right, front row, light coloured suit.

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HAC Dowker at controls of a Lancaster on the ground. Explanatory note states 'Lancaster, May 1945'.

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Two airmen on port wing of Lancaster bomber. Explanatory note: 'Howard (Skip) and Eric, Lancaster, May 1945'.

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Seven man bomber crew in flying kit next to starboard side of 61 Squadron Lancaster. Explanatory note: 'Norm, Captain Howard Dowker, Curly, Eric, Jim, JC, Len - May 1945'.

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Crew member in the bomb aimer's position inside aircraft. Separate descriptive caption - 'Eric inside Lanc, May1945'.

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George Milson's daily memoir of his last six months as a prisoner of war in Kranji, Singapore.
On 31 March 1945, George Milson was transferred from Changi Jail, Singapore, to Kranji prisoner of war camp. The camp, recently evacuated by hospital…

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Catches up with correspondence. Says he had been looking at Operation Exodus. Hopes to do an article on this shortly.

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Top - seven aircrew standing in line in front of a Lancaster. Captioned 'F/O Arthur Diack RNZAF + crew. L T R Derry Kimber (W/Op); W/O Bert Redgrove (R/G); F/Sgt "Curly Petherbridge (B/A); F/Sgt Frank Paterson (P/F/E); F/O Diack (pilot); F/Sgt George…

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Sketch map of Germany and Poland showing route from capture at Rastatt via Dulag Luft to Stalag Luft 7 and the long march to Luckenwalde.

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Give details of how crew get together before flight. Battle order, crew briefings, manning aircraft, operation flight details, baling out, evasion route/events and kit. Notes on interrogation, and dispersal to Stalag Luft 7.

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50 Air Gunners in three rows, mostly seated, mostly wearing working dress.

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George Thomson’s prisoner of war diary in a wartime log supplied by the YMCA.
Describes being shot down and includes a day-by-day account of his life as a prisoner of war from 11 November 1944 to 25 May 1945. Includes descriptions of sports and…

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For confectionery to be handed in to NAAFI when confectionary available.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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Page shows two sorties in May 1945 - one for food dropping at The Hague and the other returning prisoners of war from Juvincourt.

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A group of seven men, a mixture of British Army, RAF and one civilian.

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A group of soldiers and Norwegians in uniform. One soldier is holding a Norwegian flag.

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A row of seven people, a mixture of soldiers, airmen and a Norwegian reporter, Laura. Two of the men are holding Norwegian flags. On the reverse 'Best greetings from the reporter Laura[indecipherable] Honefoss'.