Private Papers of V R Worrall

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Graphic ts. account (7pp), probably written shortly after the Second World War, by a private in the 1st Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (77th Brigade) describing his flight by glider into the Broadway landing zone at the outset of the second Chindit expedition into Northern Burma in March 1944 and the crash-landing there with heavy loss of life.

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Catalogue date 1987-07-11

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Cataloguer RWAS

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Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Worrall, V R
Dimensions: File: Weight 3.2 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.1558

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