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A stroke of Luck! Captured British airmen sit down for champagne and caviar with German officer

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A photograph of a Nazi Panzer commander having champagne and caviar with two captured RAF pilots has been found. Hauptmann von Luck told Sergeants Edward Rodgers and Cyril Bartlam they were ‘lucky’ to have met him when they were captured, before taking them to a cafe or restaurant in Fecamp, Normandy. The pair were taken … Read more

An explosion of colour: Newly colourised images of WWII allied airmen 

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Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour.    Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more