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  • Collection: Cahir, Francis Shamus. Letters and photographs

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Details of the night Jim Cahir and crew were shot down. The surviving crew remember the pilot struggling with the controls to allow the others to escape. Patrick Edwards, the pilot did not survive. It was not until February 2004 that the survivors…

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He recollects the night he was shot down with his pilot saving their lives but losing his own. On his release he returned to UK and was treated for malnutrition.

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In the letter Jim describes Christmas in the camp.

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A letter to his mother from Jim. They are in Christchurch, New Zealand and enjoying the night life.

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A letter to Spike Alexandratos from Jim Cahir on his return from prisoner of war camp.

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A letter to Spike Alexandratos from Jim. He describes what he has been doing since arriving in England.

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A telegram to Jim welcoming him home whilst he was on the transport ship, Aquitania, from 'The Mob at Westons'

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