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Title
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Stevens, Peter
Peter Stevens
P Stevens
Georg Franz Hein
Description
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Eleven items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader Peter Stevens, Military Cross, (1919 - 1979, Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, letters and photographs. Originally called Georg Franz Hein, a German Jew, he was sent to Great Britain by his mother in 1934. He attended school in England and when war was declared he assumed the name of Peter Stevens, a deceased school friend. He joined the Air Force and flew operations as a pilot with 144 Squadron before crash landing his Hampden at Amsterdam in September 1941 and becoming a prisoner of war. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Marc Stevens and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. This collection was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Ivor Fraser. Additional information on Ivor Fraser is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/108075/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.</p>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-07-09
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Stevens, MH
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[inserted][underlined] SECRET & PERSONAL [/underlined][/inserted]
H.Q. Sdn. Air Division
C.C. Germany.
24.2.46.
Dear John,
Thank you for your letter 15/P.M/4616 of the 2nd I [indecipherable] with reference to S/L Stevens who is now filling an appointment as my P.A.
Stevens has been my P.A. since Aug. 1945 and I have nothing but good to say of him. He is hard working and loyal and in my opinion in every way suitable for nationalisation and the grant of a British passport. I am firmly convinced of his complete loyalty and integrity which is supported moreover by his operational [indecipherable].
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2.
He was recently selected by the Air C-in-C. to be his P.A. in [indecipherable] to S/L. Wright but this appointment had to be cancelled in view of Sir Sholto Douglas’s new appointment.
I have every reason personally to be grateful to him as he took over from my pilot who had a serious breakdown during a flight from Copenhagen to Berlin which resulted in a crash landing in fog and darkness in the Russian occupied zone of Germany on
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Dec. 21st 1945. His skill and determination under the most trying circumstances undoubtedly saved my life and those of five other passengers in my aircraft.
I would be delighted if you could now legalise his position and am prepared to give you any further information if necessary
Yours sincerely
A.P. Davidson
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Letter from Air Vice Marshal Davidson to Wing Commander W R John
Description
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John was tasked with investigating Peter Stevens' RAF record in order to ascertain his suitability for British citizenship. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
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A P Davidson
Date
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1946-02-24
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EDavidsonAP[Unknown]J450224
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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Germany
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1946-02-24
1945-08
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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Steve Baldwin
Marc Stevens
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