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A vertical aerial photograph of Kiel docks. Three ships are arrowed 'Pocket Battleship (Scheer)' and two 'Hipper cruisers'.

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A reconnaissance photograph of the southern end of the docks at Kiel. Several ships are visible in docks or tied to jetties. Arrowed and annotated are the ships Gneisenau, Hipper, Lutzow and Scharnhorst. Hipper and Gneisenau are surrounded by box…

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A cutting referring to an attack on Hamburg. It is annotated 'No 3 24-7-43'.

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BMooreDMooreDv1.pdf
Dennis Moore's autobiography, compiled and edited by his son, Terry Moore.

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A list of the 33 operations undertaken by Dennis from 17 September 1944 to 15 April 1945. Each operation has a small description of the task.

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AWebsterJK161004.mp3
Jack Webster applied to join the RAF in December 1942, attended a selection board at RAF Cardington, and was eventually called up in June 1943. After initial training, he went to 4 Radio School at RAF Madley passing out from there with 18 words per…

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Tom was born in Stainforth, near Doncaster. His father and two brothers were miners. One of his sisters was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the other was a qualified nurse; she became a sister in Barnsley Hospital until she joined the Army.…

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