Letter to Alastair Lang's wife from station commander RAF Wyton
Title
Letter to Alastair Lang's wife from station commander RAF Wyton
Description
Offer sympathy over report of her husband being reported missing. Mentions possibility of safe bale out and that he was well reported on by his squadron commander.
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1943-05-09
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One b/w photocopied sheet
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BCleggPVLangAGv10020
Transcription
From: G. T. Jarman, D.S.O., D.F.C. – Group Captain
Royal Air Force Station,
Wyton, Huntingdonshire.
9th May, 1943
Ref: WS/801/458/P2
Dear Mrs. Lang
I am writing to express my sympathy in your anxiety over your husband who was reported missing on the 4th May, 1943.
Your husband’s aircraft was engaged in an important mission against the enemy, but we are not in passion of any details of the events leading up to the failure of the aircraft to return to the base, and very often it takes some while for any definite news to reach us.
Experience up to the present has shown that quite a fair proportion of our flying personnel who are reported missing in operations against the enemy have managed to make a safe decent by parachute or in the aircraft itself. Therefore there must be some hope that your husband is safe and a prisoner in enemy hands.
Your husband was well reported on by his Squadron Commander, and I am sure that he and his companions gave a very good account of themselves under whatever circumstances prevented them from bringing their aircraft back. I am indeed sorry to lose such first class men, and can only hope that they have been able to make a safe landing.
Please accept my sincere sympathy in your anxiety, and let me know if there is any way in which I can help.
Yours sincerely,
G. Jarman
Mrs. Lang,
1 Station Road,
[underlined]Warboys, Huntingdonshire.[/underlined]
Royal Air Force Station,
Wyton, Huntingdonshire.
9th May, 1943
Ref: WS/801/458/P2
Dear Mrs. Lang
I am writing to express my sympathy in your anxiety over your husband who was reported missing on the 4th May, 1943.
Your husband’s aircraft was engaged in an important mission against the enemy, but we are not in passion of any details of the events leading up to the failure of the aircraft to return to the base, and very often it takes some while for any definite news to reach us.
Experience up to the present has shown that quite a fair proportion of our flying personnel who are reported missing in operations against the enemy have managed to make a safe decent by parachute or in the aircraft itself. Therefore there must be some hope that your husband is safe and a prisoner in enemy hands.
Your husband was well reported on by his Squadron Commander, and I am sure that he and his companions gave a very good account of themselves under whatever circumstances prevented them from bringing their aircraft back. I am indeed sorry to lose such first class men, and can only hope that they have been able to make a safe landing.
Please accept my sincere sympathy in your anxiety, and let me know if there is any way in which I can help.
Yours sincerely,
G. Jarman
Mrs. Lang,
1 Station Road,
[underlined]Warboys, Huntingdonshire.[/underlined]
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Group Caption G T Garman, “Letter to Alastair Lang's wife from station commander RAF Wyton,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 22, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/31050.
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