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Anyone researching SOE Burma, we have original lists of Peacock Force equipment in the papers of RG Turrall. #WW2 #SOE #Burma

The Last Letter of Goulden ‘Boy’ Webster. 149 Sqd, shot down over Berlin 19/20 Nov 1940. All the crew lost their lives. The cause of loss and crash site are not established. This is his ‘last letter' to his mother should he be KIA or MIA. #ww2 #RAF #Remembrance

One of the graves we have 'adopted' at our local cemetery. Wop/AG Sgt Eric George Paul 103 Sqn took off from RAF Elsham Wolds to Frankfurt. Crashed near Holbeach whilst trying to make an emergency landing in fog on their return. #WW2 #RemembranceDay

Anyone watching Clash of the Nations: Louis v Schmeling? We have intel on the German boxer's capture in one of our monthly newsletters 🥊 #ww2 #BoxingHistory #german #schmeling

Most inappropriately named street. Lébisey, France, June 1944. #ww2 #Dday #lebisey #caen #france

Parachute silk nightdress belonging to Millicent ‘Millie’ Penny (née Perkins) WAAF. #ww2 #parachute #silk #Nightwear #archive

Our latest newsletter! Every month, read personal experiences of the war from our vast archive of previously unpublished first-hand accounts. Free to our Friends. war-experience.org/become-a-…

Major Richard Carr-Gomm OBE saw action in Normandy in 1944 with 4 Bn, 6 Guards Tank Bde, Coldstream Guards. Sketch of Richard by Dutch civilian on the night before the battalion’s victory drive through Kiel 10th May 1945. #ww2 #coldstreamguards #stetch #veteran

POW diary of Navigator F/O William Brittain of 418 Squadron whose Mosquito VI RS604 was lost due to flak over the Netherlands on 22 Feb 1945 while on a massed squadron raid. #ww2 #ww2history #RCAF #mosquito #POW #diary #veterans #archives

Rudlof Feistauer served as a radio operator in 2. SS-Infanterie-Brigade (mot), operating in Russia/Ukraine in 1941. He served for 4 years. We hold his memoirs and an audio interview recorded in 2003. #ww2 #ww2history #germany #russia #Heer #SS

Digitised today, 37 original pieces of art by Piper/Stretcher Bearer of 9th Battalion the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) with whom he saw action on D-Day. #ww2 #art #warart #artist #veteran

Red Cross postcard from Wolfgang Hessmann, German POW in Russia, to liberated POW pal Kurt Exner in Bavaria, Nov 1948. Written from a Soviet detention hospital camp in Magnitogorsk. #ww2 #POW #German #Russia #gulag #Magnitogorsk #postcard #letter #veterans

A knotted hanky for your head & Horlicks tablets - lifeboat survival WW2. These belonged to 17-yr-old Deck Apprentice Mervyn Manson of SS Empire Zeal, sunk 02 Nov 1942. #ww2 #merchantnavy #lifeboat #handkerchief #horlicks #survival

Seeing as #football has been trending, here is a WW2 Army football badge 🙂 ⚽️⚽️⚽️ This one was awarded to Harry Taylor of 146 Field Ambulance RAMC. #ww2 #ww2history #army #RAMC #footballfans #badges #awards

WW2 City of the Dead: Meiktila - Rodney Percy Royal Signals youtu.be/xPZ0emx4y-I?si=p358… via @YouTube

1,000-stitch Senninbari given to child internee Celia Meade FEPOW at Maymyo Camp, Burma, by Japanese guard Katsumasa Kato from Tokyo. This was stitched by Japanese students from 'Higher Girls’ School, 2nd Year’ as a good luck talisman. #ww2 #Burma #senninbari #fepow

Teenage firefighter in the London Blitz WW2 - George Wheeler youtu.be/bOSQuh8lBcc?si=Q7Z8… via @YouTube

Sweltering in the heat? So were these prisoners at POW camp Oflag 79 Brunswick, Germany, in 1944. Artist Captain Denis Swinney - whose fabulous wartime art collection is preserved here in our archive. #ww2 #POW #brunswick #warart #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ

From microphones in tent poles to a decent cup of tea, how to extract info from captured Japanese prisoners. youtu.be/Q3oIYpFV2JQ?si=V6BN… via @YouTube