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Ts memoir (105pp) covering his experiences during the Second World War, with excellent descriptions of joining the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and training at various locations in Canada, posting to the United Kingdom as a Pilot Officer in early 1942 and further training until October 1942, when he was posted to No 35 Squadron Path Finder Force, based at RAF Graveley in Cambridgeshire, participation in the raid on the German U-boat pens at Lorient in France in February 1943 during which he was forced to bail out, his experiences evading capture and falling in with Free French agents in occupied France, eventual escape from Brittany to Cornwall in a fishing boat, rejoining No 35 Squadron RAF and participation in the 1943 Hamburg and Peenemunde raids (amongst others), capture by the Germans after being forced to bail out during the raid on Leipzig in February 1944 while with 10 Squadron, interrogation at Oberursel and transfer to Stalag Luft III (Sagan), where he was involved in a minor way in the 'Great Escape' of that year, conditions in Sagan and the evacuation of the camp in January 1944, his liberation near Luebeck, and concluding with the story of his journey back to France immediately after the war to find (and marry) the French girl he had met while in hiding; there are also some interesting references to the psychological after-effects of his wartime experiences; together with a translation from the French of an article (27pp ts) by Carter and others concerning the Resistance in the area around Bourblanc (Goelo) in Brittany.
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Ts memoir (105pp) covering his experiences during the Second World War, with excellent descriptions of joining the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and training at various locations in Canada, posting to the United Kingdom as a Pilot Officer in early 1942 and further training until October 1942, when he was posted to No 35 Squadron Path Finder Force, based at RAF Graveley in Cambridgeshire, participation in the raid on the German U-boat pens at Lorient in France in February 1943 during which he was forced to bail out, his experiences evading capture and falling in with Free French agents in occupied France, eventual escape from Brittany to Cornwall in a fishing boat, rejoining No 35 Squadron RAF and participation in the 1943 Hamburg and Peenemunde raids (amongst others), capture by the Germans after being forced to bail out during the raid on Leipzig in February 1944 while with 10 Squadron, interrogation at Oberursel and transfer to Stalag Luft III (Sagan), where he was involved in a minor way in the 'Great Escape' of that year, conditions in Sagan and the evacuation of the camp in January 1944, his liberation near Luebeck, and concluding with the story of his journey back to France immediately after the war to find (and marry) the French girl he had met while in hiding; there are also some interesting references to the psychological after-effects of his wartime experiences; together with a translation from the French of an article (27pp ts) by Carter and others concerning the Resistance in the area around Bourblanc (Goelo) in Brittany.
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Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1996-10