Private Papers of S C Masters

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Description

Object description

Microfilm of ts account (344pp probably written in the late 1980s) describing his his service as a sergeant navigator with No 7 Path Finder Squadron, Bomber Command, including being shot down over Arras in June 1944, his short lived evasion from capture, his arrest, interrogation and imprisonment (Amiens, Brussels and Frankfurt, June - July 1944; Stalag Luft VII, Bankau, July 1944 - January 1945; Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde, January - May 1945), the march westwards in January 1945, liberation by, and difficulties of life under the Russians, and his repatriation to England (May 1945), giving excellent descriptions of his attempt to evade capture, his treatment under interrogation, the minutiae of POW life, including social and psychological difficulties, the attitudes of German guards, German civilian conditions after the surrender, and the behaviour of the liberating forces. Also: photocopies of ts fragments of further Second World War memoirs (34pp) covering his service with No 622 Bomber Squadron and No 7 Path Finder Squadron on raids over the Friesian Islands, Frankfurt, Essen and Longues in France.

Content description

History note

Cataloguer PHR

History note

Catalogue date 1987-08

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: Masters, Stephen Claud
Dimensions: whole: 1 File and 1 Microfilm
Catalogue number: Documents.1505

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Masters, Stephen Claud
Royal Air Force, 7 Squadron
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 160
Masters, Stephen Claud
Associated items

Oral history
Associated places

Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde
Stalag Luft VII, Bankau, Breslau
Associated subjects

Microfilms
Photocopies
Private Papers
Prisoner of War

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