LIBERATED AIRMEN
RESTING AT BRIGHTON (Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, April 23. Warrant Officer F. C. Sergeant, DF.M., of Wellington, was air gunner in a Wellington that had made a forced landing in Sicily in February, 1942. He spent 18 months in Italian camps, going to Genoa and Trieste until the Germans took the prisoners over and sent them to Forlitz and finally to Lamsdorf. He was in the long march from the advancing Russians. For him the war ended at Duderstadt where, with 450 other men, he fell out sick with dysentery and was rescued by the Americans. Now he is one of nearly 40 men of the R.N.Z.A.F., mostly n.c.o.s, who have been liberated from prisoner-of-war camps in Germany and are at the reception centre in Brighton. They are living in two large hotels which were taken over by the Air Ministry and are spending most of their time resting and readjusting themselves to the normal way of living.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7
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163LIBERATED AIRMEN Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7
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