DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 167, Year 2011 - Page 21
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' cf Reva Air Force Combined Operations IV Co orsp 2n d Div R Saunders; 11 (EA) Div Provost Coy, EA CMP; HQ H Scruton; RAMC; Leeds LR Seaward; Royal Berkshire Regt; Ipswich J Shaw; 62 Sqn, RAF; Wrexha …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 167, Year 2011 - Page 22
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Bob Chisholm is trying to find out whereabouts in Burma his father was stationed. He was , in the RAFVR. Whilst in Burma he was a Clerk SD before after the war qualifying as a Fighter Plotter. We do k …
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Just outside the city was a large Japanese ammunition dump and this was one of the first places that needed clearing up. I was detailed by the Brigadier to take a party to the dump and blow it up. The …
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over the top of it. Since the wall was six foot high and with a crowd of people all round me it was probably a rather forlorn hope that I should be able to climb over it in the time available before t …
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when he could manage to get a shot in but we only collected a few shots through the jeep and none of them did any real damage. We duly delivered the Spirits to the officers at Magelang and probably ra …
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tried to move away from those enormous feet! After claiming that I was OK, I was allowed up and, to save me climbing up the path back to the vehicles, I was put up on the elephant very well ridden by …
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the ten crew of the Liberator perished and were buried on an Irrawaddy Island but some of the original graves were washed away. It is always a good feeling to have given some help to the families of t …
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We also visited the tank which is still on the top of one of the hills. It had to be left there as they could not get it back down again. One of our late Burma Star Association members had been involv …