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“We are the little boys the BEF forgot”- British POWs and their Graffiti at Stalag XXA, Thorn

Author: mgasior
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Section: Research

Bridge linking courtyard and entrance gate to Fort XI of Stalag XXA.

During the Second World War the German Army established a number of POW facilities in the artillery forts in the old Hanseatic city of Thorn (Toruń ) in northern Poland. The camp bore number Stammlager (Stalag) XXA and held Allied prisoners of various nationalities.

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Reprisal bombs on London following ‘Dam Busters’ raid

Author: jmcarthur
Date: Monday, March 2, 2015
Section: Research

IWM HU 129143. East Surrey Grove, London, 17 May 1943.

Operation Chastise which destroyed the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe Dams was launched on the night of the 16^th May 1943.

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The RAF in the Cold War 1950-1970

Author: iproctor
Date: Sunday, November 23, 2014
Section: Research

Hawker Hunters of No. 111 Squadron’s display team the Black Arrows. Photograph by Mike Chase MM FRPS, 1957. © IWM RAF-T 240.

For over forty years the Royal Air Force was in the frontline of Britain’s Cold War defences. Recording the first half of this dynamic period were a small number of specialist aviation photographers from the Air Ministry’s (later Ministry of Defence’s) Photographic Reproduction Branch (PRB) who produced a unique collection of 10,000 colour images. PRB’s chief photographer for much of this period was Mike Chase MM, one of the country’s most experienced aviation photographers.

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