Author: Margaret HayesPublisher:
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Category : Congo
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Missing -- Believed Killed
Author: Margaret HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Missing Believed Killed
Author: Stuart HadawayPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781597987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence reports from a wide variety of official, unofficial and covert sources in an attempt to establish the fate of missing aircrew, using forensic or semi-forensic work to identify personal effects passed on through clandestine channels or bodies washed up on Britains shores. In 1944 the M.R.S. a small team of fourteen men was sent to France to seek the missing men on the ground. With 42,000 men missing, the amount they achieve was limited, although a lot of useful work was carried out through contacts in the French Resistance. The book explains why, men volunteered for the job, and why they worked for so long at such a gruesome task. Facing difficulties in terrain and climate, from the Arctic Circle to the jungles of Burma and Germany and not knowing if the local people would be friendly or hostile. The book also explains how to trace R.A.F. members through both personnel and operational records, where these records are kept and how to access them.
Missing: Believed Killed
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848843194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a century after their final flights, what happened to them is still the subject of speculation, conspiracy theory and controversy. This has prompted Roy Conyers Nesbit to reinvestigate their stories and to write this perceptive, level-headed and gripping study. Using testimony from new witnesses and hitherto undisclosed public records, he seeks to explain why they were reported Ômissing: believed killedÕ. He describes why American aviatrix Amelia Earhart vanished in the Pacific on her round-the-world flight in 1937, what caused the death of BritainÕs aviation heroine Amy Johnson over the Thames estuary in 1941, and what really killed band-leader Glenn Miller on his doomed flight to Paris in 1944. And he applies the same expert forensic eye to other tragic aerial mysteries of the period including the flying-boat crash that claimed the life of the Duke of Kent in Scotland in 1942. This classic study, issued here for the first time in paperback, will be fascinating reading for students of aviation history and for anyone who is intrigued by tales of flights into the unknown.
Missing-believed Killed. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
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Author: Margaret HAYES (of the Unevangelized Field Mission.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The War Record of the 1/5th Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Author: Charles CarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Royal div. reg
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Historical Records
Author: Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron HighlandersPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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