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- CSV Action Desk Leicester
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- G.E.Maller
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- Prisoner of War
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- Army
- Article ID:听
- A6086577
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- 10 October 2005
After 5 years as a POW I was at Reims Airport waiting for Lancaster bombers from a Lincolnshire RAF station to fly us back to "Blighty". I crowded round one of the planes when they landed and was lucky to catch a "Mae West" which was being distributed by one of the crew. 25 passengers per plane, I had the last one.
Flying over the Channel, the Gunner in the centre turret invited me to join him. I was ecstatic when I saw the white cliffs of Dover, and then to crown it all, the radio crackled (it did in those days) and Winston Churchill was giving his famous Victory in Europe Speech.
What a day to remember.
Demobb February 12th 1946
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