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Les Baker's Letter Home. Pt.l. Journey to Singapore

Well Mum as you know already I managed to get Tom in the same cabin as I on the boat "Capetown...

Les Baker's Letter Home - Part 2 Fall of Singapore and Sumatra

It was just the shortage of good RAF planes that left us Malaya, we having all very old obsolete kites...

Les Baker's Letter Home. Part 3. Escape from Sumatra and Java.

We were getting rather desperate at this time, as we had heard on the road that the Japs had captured...

Les Baker's Letter Home Part 4. Journey to Ceylon.

When the Japs landed in Java, there was nothing we could do as we had very little equipment and very few...

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