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Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 1

In the morning the proper driver took over and I finished the exercise in the office P.D. We moved about...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 2: Dunkirk 1940

Back in the dunes about 40/50 yards from where we had been before, we settled down again and hoped that we...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 3

I was in the dance hall when Jack came running out, saw me and said" some 'so and so' on the...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 4

My diary records that here Wellingtons, Whitleys, Ansons, Battles, Blenheims, Stirlings, Oxfords, Defiants...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 5

I was on the court enquiry and it seemed that the sergeant in the Bren Carrier thought that the mines were...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 6

We had talks from Officers about loads and aspects of flying such as what to do in case of ditching in the...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 7

Tuesday, Spinner and me spent the day watching planes and gliders take off and land whilst lounging on the...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 8

Spinner had started to get our kit out of the glider so I went across to the Dutchmen and asked if anyone...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 9

1945 With the German Officer was a Sergeant Major and about 50 soldiers, others having returned to their...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 12

After Kreuzburg we continued to a small town called Konstadt and though there to a little village where we...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 13

These are for all Allied Prisoners and the Germans had nothing to do with them except for the guarding of...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 14

The rations from the Russians were no better than we had had from the Germans whilst prisoners. He chose to...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 15

After we had retrieved our arms, the train started and we were soon in Belfast; catching our connection for...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot: A POW in Germany

He can speak French, Spanish, Italian, German and at the moment is starting on Russian. At the Court of...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 10

Why we were picked out, I never knew exactly but it seems that as Glider Pilots we should be prisoners of...

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