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Perhaps the first thing we noticed after gazing with awe at the Stearman aircraft on the “Line”...
Our host showed us a film of the jungle and the rocky coast line we would have to travel over, as Surabaya...
To France and Belgium, then back to Dunkirk War broke out in September that year, and after a period of...
Ushigawa and Konimitzu followed Con into G battalion hut, with the guards screaming for all those inside...
On 28 May, I was approached and asked if I would do one more mission with Flying Officer Harry Smith's...
Speaking Shanghai dialect, he was able to explain to the villagers that the swimmers bobbing about in the...
So up the Derne road we go, leaving Tobruk behind us, Jerry frying instead of us. The RAF had knocked about...
Some of the lads were talking of trying to get back to Stalag 8B but Bluey and I had other ideas, the...
The account which follows is based on the account by Martin Weedon in his book “Guest of an...
The road on either side was littered of course with abandoned vehicles and things upside down and so on and...
So the Colonel got them all together and said that in England, in the winter, snow came up to your neck,...
Behind the tanks were a mixture of Italian and German infantrymen, an Italian pushed me over and kicked...
The Russian P.O.Ws, hated by the Germans, had to survive on the rations they provided, which was less than...
Such searches were not conducted by soldiers, but by the Italian police who were, so we were told, the...
Very nearly broken-hearted, I ran into the nearby sergeants’ hut and asked if anyone had seen an...
We arrived at this most notorious and dreaded camp after travelling for days through dense jungle where...
The Petty Officer said that he had become friendly with the Italian Padre in the hospital, where he said...
I landed in Java in February 1942 at Tanjung Priok and went to Dutch Army barracks in Batavia, unloaded...
In August while still in the South Atlantic, a rendezvous with the other operating raider 23 and a further...
A few days later, the Japs brought in a group of Thais they had caught, we were told, stealing blankets. It...
My souvenir of that winter is a wooden cigarette case carved with a 1944 symbol on a reindeer scene, made...
The carrier vanishes After some training on Swordfish, grandfather was told that he and his fellow pilots...
One POW was getting out at night and was seeing the wife of a German soldier who was on the Russian front....
First at Stalag VIII.B. at Lamsdorf Lower Silesia for about four months, then the new Luftwaffe controlled...
Goodbye and God speed In an extract from Helen's diary for the night of 19 February, she wrote:...
So the shower house was very large and in constant daily use. On the day Tom was to be showered and...
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