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Like so many other young, eager types, Sid Martin joined the R.C.A.F. in August 1941. What lie didn't tell the recruiting officer, was that he lead been born in January 1925 and was just past his 16th …
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By W Johnstone-Kent The Story of Lt. Jock Young The battle for Kohima was won by a handful of men, about 1,500, the Royal West Kents, The Assam Regiment and a few hundred “odds and sods”... The …
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Ted was born in London , England in 1919 and later emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1938 Ted returned to England and was accepted at the Royal Military Academy as a Cadet. After graduation and …
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O N.S. 154 This is a story of one convoy that crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic which started in 1939 and ended on V.E. Day. O.N.S. identifies the convoy as a ""slow, we …
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Called up July 26, 1940 Colwick Park, Nottingham. Cleethorpes, Grainthorpe, Somercotes, Saltfleetby, Somercotes (South), South Usselby, Grimsby, Redcar, Yarm, Tow Law, Middlesbrough. Sailed Septembe …
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By JR Manning When I look back over the years to what all of us of the 14th Army went through I feet a great sadness at the very touching and sad memories of the Burma Vets. After all, with the best …
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By Stan White The RAF Servicing Commandos have received scant recognition from those who write about the Second World War RAF history, and yet they made a vital contribution to keeping the front- li …
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Pfc Dalton F Williams of Merrill's Marauders & Mars Task Force By Sandy Williams Driver Pfc Dalton F Williams His Honorable Discharge state …
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By Dennis R Courant The Japanese Government was signatory to the ""Third Geneva Convention of 1929""- with respect to the treatment of POWs- but in the end fails ratify it. The reasoning behind i …
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What follows is an account of two families’ departure from Burma when the Japanese invaded in 1942 which Ann P Birch of Tidworth, Hants thought we might like to have in the archives. This was writt …
