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Army Air Corps
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Those known to have served with Army Air Corps during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Cameron Alan James Campbell. Pte.
- Curtis Leonard Arthur Cecil. Pte.
- Garbutt William Martyn. Sgt.
- Holmstrom Carl Henry. 2nd Lt.
- Simpson Philip Gordon. Pte.
- Tarbitten John Walter. Sgt.
- White Anthony Ibraheem. Pte.
- Wilson Edward Patrick Joseph.
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Want to know more about Army Air Corps? There are:1343 items tagged Army Air Corps available in our Library
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Pte. Anthony Ibraheem White Royal Warwickshire Regiment Tony White served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Army Air Corps and South Wales Borderers.
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Edward Patrick Joseph Wilson 2nd Btn. Welch Regiment My father Edward Wilson married a Guernsey girl in 1937 and was called up to the Somerset Light Infantry in 1940.
I am not sure what he did between 1940 and 1944 but I know he spent some time near Weston Supermare in Somerset and also did a parachute training course with the Aimy Air Corps.
He spent 1944 and 1945 in Burma and although there are numerous stories that he could tell, I have two small diaries that he kept whilst in Burma.
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Sgt. William Martyn Garbutt Glider Pilot Regt. Army Air Corps William Garbutt flew into Arnhem in 1944 from Blakehill Farm in the first lift on Operation Market Garden. He was second pilot in a Horsa Glider piloted by S.F. Matthews, who was killed in action at Arnhem. William Garbutt was taken prisoner there.
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2nd Lt. Carl Henry Holmstrom My father's name is Carl Holmstrom. He was shot down on 3rd of January 1943 and became one of the first Americans taken POW in the European Theatre of Operations when his plane crashed in the Tunisian desert. He was sent to Dulag Luft then Oflag 21-B then then Stalag Luft 3.
While at Stalag Lift 3, he worked as a forger of maps, escape documents, and money as he was a graphic artist who graduated from Pratt Institute with a specialty in calligraphy.
He was known for his artistic talent as a forger and as a portrait artist. When he was liberated April 29,1945,he had been imprisoned for 28 months.
If you want to see his drawings and read more about him, go to kriegielife.com. My brother put up the website and I am sure you will enjoy it.
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Pte. Alan James Campbell Cameron Army Air Corps Alan Cameron's daughter Averil knows little about her fathers past other than he was brought up by the Donnelly family at 7, Aberfoyle Terrace, Strand Road, Derry. He went to the family at the age of 6 years old. Mrs. Donnelly, Rosina was a sister of Alan's mother Isabella Mooney. Alan worked as a foreman builder and lived in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. His wife's name was Joan.
Alan joined the Army Air Corps and as a paratrooper was dropped into German enemy lines. He was captured, having sustained a broken leg. He was held at Stalag X1-B in Fallingbostel and was POW No. 117367.
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Sgt. John Walter Tarbitten Army Air Corps Jack Tarbitten was captured at Arnhem and transferred to Stalag XII-A where he was held from the 2nd of October to the 28th of November 1944. Then he was transferred to Stalag IV-B arriving on the 2nd of December 1944, until he left on 4th of May 1945 after the German guards left and before the Russians arrived.
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