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Some prisoners were recaptured by the Germans and sent to Germany, but many joined the rapidly forming...
Without doubt the most important crew member in a Bomber Command aircraft was the navigator; if you did not...
This was the day I learnt from my section officer, Lieutenant Bogis-Rolfe, that a Sergeant Issac had been...
The Cassino War Cemetery is situated close by the base of the height of Monte Cassino just a mile south of...
Timaru was not the centre of New Zealand aviation at this time, but there was quite a large hangar at the...
The Burmese jungle is very dense and very hilly, air strips had been made in the jungle for aeroplanes and...
We had very few cases of Enemy Activity in Leamington in comparison with places like Coventry and...
The Russian P.O.Ws, hated by the Germans, had to survive on the rations they provided, which was less than...
When it was dark, Pierre took me into his farmhouse and gave me a substantial meal and a bed for the night....
As the SSR and Canadian Cameron Highlanders came ashore at Green Beach in Pourville between 4.50 and 5.30...
In 1998 they had tried yet again to find Barry for research for Bernard's exhibition but with so many...
After Cesena, I with my platoon was attached as Engineer support to a Squadron of Lancers based at the...
Rather I remember it as a happy time because the war in Europe was clearly going to end soon, though I have...
Saturday night dances at the Town Hall became a Mecca for them picking up the excited English girls...
With one of my friends I climbed up in the church tower and had a jolly time ringing the church bells...
I believe that it was sometime in September that Brigadier General Legge, the United States Military...
We could enjoy the music and dancing while my parents made friends with other elderly people but above all...
Immediately after the Sports Meet I set off for India, accompanied by my bearer Ahmed Din, to attend a...
They swept though our town in dark green jeeps to their camp behind the Brewery in Albion Street or out to...
Although in Normandy the allies had control of the air, German fighter bombers carried out numerous...
Him and his freind then rejoined his group and were told to move East for the defence of Warsaw. The Poznan...
The Crossing of the English Channel and Landing Then on the evening of June fourth, we marched onto the...
The 11th Indian LAA Although the airfield at Kyaukpyu was operating at full stretch, it was considered that...
And then far to the rear of the staid old Opera House, from the topmost tier of boxes, an uncouth officer...
When the time came, when I was sixteen, I joined the Royal Navy as a boy, training for boys in the Royal...
At the outbreak of the 2nd World War, the Canadian Militia was renamed as the Canadian Army and January...
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