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• Detail summary of my career. (UPDATED June 17, 2006)
• Beginnings.
• A Lucky Break
• The Spanish Episode (UPDATED September 12, 2005)
• Sergeant Pilot to Officer Pilot, R.A.F.O., CLASS 'A'.
• Airline Engineer to Flying Instructor.(UPDATED June 22, 2006)
• September, 1939! From Elmdon to Cambridge to Flight Commander at Bottisham

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• Please turn on your speakers and go to Bomber Operations (UPDATED September 18, 2008) (With links to PRO Operations Records, the last flight, the Dutch Police Report and my navigator, Jack Patterson's Story)

  • The First 1000 Bomber Raid
  • Inside a Halifax Cockpit (UPDATED November 28, 2008)
  • 158 Squadron Log, 1/6/42-25/7/42
  • Some photographs taken at the 2008 Squadron reunion.

• The Story of "The Watch" (UPDATED January 17, 2012)
• Stalagluft III (UPDATED January 16, 2014)

  • Comemorative painting of our last trip by Don Hall, a couple of Lamsdorf links
    and a couple of poems. (UPDATED September 14, 2001)
  • My route to the camp.
  • Camp Layout (UPDATED November 13, 2009)
  • Notes (ADDED July 30, 2004)
  • Sketch of my Room (UPDATED November 13, 2009)
  • The Caterpillar Club
  • Close Friends and Comrades
  • Classwork (UPDATED January 7, 2007)
  • Escape Maps (ADDED May 8, 2004)
  • Christmas 1943 (UPDATED April 23, 2004)
  • Camp Money

• The Great Escape (UPDATED January 8, 2010)
• Two Forced Marches to Victory. (UPDATED February 5, 2009)

• Home again and Civy Street. (UPDATED July 29, 2004)
• Back in Blue with Transport Command.
• The Berlin Airlift. (UPDATED July 2, 2004)
• One Last Jump.
• The Jet Age. (UPDATED January 6, 2013)
• Back to Germany. (UPDATED July 2, 2000)
• Civy Street and a Final Flight. (UPDATED April 23,2005)
• Final Days. (UPDATED March 30, 2004)
• The Last Mission.

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• EPILOGUE
• Bomber Command Memorial Dedication Long Overdue. (Updated 10 August 2012).

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• Remembering World War II and other events.
• Dan Rather visits Normandy
• Dan Rather
• History of Dan Rather

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