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  • Tags: Stalag 4B
  • Type is exactly "Text. Memoir"

MSlaterWJ50613-160121-03.jpg
Covers joining RAF and training initially as pilot in United Kingdom and the United States, then having failed due to poor eyesight re-mustered and trained as navigator in Canada. Flew anti-submarine patrols on Whitley then joined 102 Squadron. Lists…

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MMaddocksR[Ser#-DoB]-100808-01.jpg
Text provides an explanation of how the paintings were acquired.

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BWilsonRCWilsonRCv1.pdf
Reg summarises Bomber Command's role in the war then details his personal experiences from training days. He covers, in detail, the navigational techniques he used, and describes the operation he was on when he was shot down.

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MWilsonRC1389401-170113-100002.pdf
Reg starts with a page about the Caterpillar Club then describes his life after the war. Over the years he had many reunions and undertook research regarding the four crew members who died the night they were shot down. In 2001 he and 90 or so…

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MWilsonRC1389401-170113-100001.pdf
The account begins with the time he was shot down on an operation to Berlin. He was then transferred to Frankfurt for interrogation then by train to his camp. Camp life involved food, the preparation and acquisition of extra food by theft, trading…

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MWilsonRC1389401-170113-07.pdf
It contains an account of Reg's bale out, capture and time in Dulag Luft, Stalag 4B and Offlag 7B, and recordshis operational experiences the day he baled out. He describes his captors as friendly, but the food was awful. They were taken by bus and…

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BWhitwellHJWhitwellHJv1.pdf
Harry provides a detailed account of an operation on Friday, 8th October 1943 and lists his crew members. Their usual aircraft was unserviceable and they flew N for Nan for the operation, during which the aircraft was hit and all the crew baled out.…

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BCahirFSCahirFSv1.pdf
Memoirs of Jim Cahir who served with 466 Squadron RAAF. He describes being shot down near Frankfurt on Main on the night of 20/21 December 1943 and, subsequently, being captured and imprisoned in Stalag IVB in Muhleberg, where he remained until the…

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