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- Tags: escaping
It happened one night
Flying Officer Kenneth Killeen
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are head and shoulders portraits annotated as "Escape" photographs.
Photo 4 is a half length portrait of Kenneth with a navigator brevet.
Photo 5 is a near three quarter…
Letter from Emile Witmeur to Robert [sic] Langlois
Tags: crash; escaping; evading; prisoner of war; Resistance
Letter from Emile Witmeur to Roy Langlois
Tags: crash; escaping; evading; prisoner of war; Resistance; Wellington
Letter from Emile Witmeur to Roy Langlois
Tags: crash; escaping; evading; prisoner of war; Resistance; Wellington
Letter from Emile Witmeur to Roy Langlois
Tags: crash; escaping; evading; Resistance; Wellington
Letter from Emile Witmeur to Roy Langlois and report of crash landing and subsequent attempted escape of crew aided by Belgian escape line
Account of crash of Wellington W5421 and Flt Lt Roy Langlois's crew and Belgian Comet escape line
Mlle Andree De Jongh goes to palace for GM
Newsletter of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society
Tags: escaping
First airman to travel via Comète
Six locations and people in Belgium
Top centre - view down a lane with trees/hedge either side. Captioned 'Lane leading to Mr dr Voegt's house'.
Top right -…
Tags: escaping; evading; memorial; Resistance
Map of Comete line
Le Flight Lieutenant Jack L Newton est revenue a Liege
Newspaper cutting
Tags: escaping; evading; prisoner of war
Letter to Jack Newton
Tags: 108 Squadron; escaping; evading; RAF Bassingbourn
My experience as a prisoner of war in Germany 1943 - 1945
Tags: 428 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training
Jack Marsden, Paul and Gaston Charruet
Postcards from Victor Mendelski and two Newspaper cuttings
Item 1 is a postcard from Victor to his mother.
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting referring to the small number of prisoners who escaped back to Britain.
Item 3 is a postcard addressed to Victor.
Item 4 is a cutting about…
Tags: aircrew; escaping; evading; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Behind Enemy Lines
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; Gneisenau; Hurricane; Me 110; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Marham; RAF Tangmere; Scharnhorst; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
An English air force mechanic shot down in 1943 returns to the place where his plane fell
The Responsibilities of a Prisoner of War
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war; propaganda; Red Cross