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- Tags: evading
Escape and evasion warning against giving information document
Tags: 635 Squadron; escaping; evading
Escape Photo
Escape pipe
Tags: evading
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Describes early life, joining the RAF, training and joining 10 Squadron as mid-upper gunner on Halifax. Was shot down during operation to Munich on 6/7 September 1943. After evading was capture and prisoner of war until April 1945. Goes…
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Evaded Capture in Denmark and letter and telegram to Roy Maddock-Lyon's parents advising him he was safe
Item 2 is a letter from the Air Ministry advising his parents that he is safe in Sweden. It is captioned 'RAF Letter…
Tags: 10 Squadron; bale out; evading; Halifax; RAF Melbourne; shot down
Evading compass
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First airman to travel via Comète
Flight Lieutenant LC Pipkin's Diary
Flying Officer Philip Derek Hemmens
On the reverse 'Survived crash -died in Buchenwald. 152583. Bomb aimer. Willie. F/O Phil Hemmens'.
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; crash; evading; killed in action
France, north Spain, part of Italy and Switzerland
Tags: evading
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
French, Dutch, German, Spanish phrase book
Tags: evading
Gallantry in Captivity
General questionnaire for British/American ex-prisoners of war
Tags: Dulag Luft; evading; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 6
George Reid Williamson on a rooftop
Tentaively identified as Paris by Cunin Yves and Charles Woodham of the…
Tags: evading
George Reid Williamson reading a newspaper in the Bois de Boulogne
Tags: evading; Resistance