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Portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) Les Whellum RAAF, wireless operator with No. 102 (Halifax) Squadron. Sgt Whellum was shot down on 28 June 1944 near Beauvais, France. He was hidden by the Resistance prior to being captured and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, where he spent approximately six weeks before being transferred to a Prisoner of War (POW) Camp, with other Allied airmen. (Donor L. Whellum)
c. 1941. Portrait of Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Keith Mills RAAF, navigator of No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron RAF. After being shot down on 21 June 1944 while on a mission to bomb Laon in northern France, F
Ballarat, NSW. November 1942. Studio portrait of Aircraftman 2 (later Flight Sergeant) Mervyn Fairclough RAAF of Moora WA while training at Ballarat. Flt Sgt Fairclough of No. 51 Squadron, was shot do
Portrait of 432355 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James (Jim) P. Gwilliam RAAF, No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron RAF air gunner, of Bathurst, NSW. Flt Sgt Gwilliam was shot down on 22 June 1944 en route to a bomb
Portrait of Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Phillip (Phil) J. Lamason DFC and Bar, Royal New Zealand Air Force, a pilot with No. 15 (Lancaster) Squadron. Sqn Ldr Lamason was hidden by the French Resistance
Portrait of Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James (Jim) P. Gwilliam RAAF, air gunner, of Bathust, NSW, and Flt Sgt Eric L. Johnston RAAF, both of No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron. Flt Sgt Gwilliam and Flt Sgt John
Two allied airmen playing chess in Chevreuse with a Frenchwoman whose family hid them for two weeks after they were shot down. Left to right: Colette Kalmanson, Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Philip J Lam
