SWWEC

The Second World War Experience Centre is a UK charity collecting, conserving & making available the personal stories of those who lived through WWII

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Anti-aircraft gun being wheeled into position at Roberts Barracks, Changi, Singapore. 11 HAA Bty, 3 HAA Regt. Sgt Hunter of Leeds in foreground.
#WW2 #singapore #changi #antiaircraft #gun #artillery #Leeds

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Escaping Malaya in WW2 - Sister Thelma Bell of 2/10th Australian General Hospital.
https://t.co/xJwhet5noZ via @YouTube

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Commando training WW2 - Major James Dunning https://t.co/G7HEjCpEt5 via @YouTube

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Chindits - veteran Albert Hodge of King's Liverpool Regiment https://t.co/OUEvZi4MOP via @YouTube

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6 York & Lancs battle dress Salerno landing 1943, by Norman Wray of A Coy.
#ww2 #army #battledress #salerno #italy

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Hettie Lüder was a child interned in West Java by the Japanese. These paintings from her collection depict the so-called Beschermings Kamp (Protection Camp) known as Baros 6 in Tjimahi which operated under Japanese command.
#WW2 #art #fepow #tenko

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David Westheimer from Houston served with 98 Bombardment Group. Shot down on his 29th mission on 11 Dec 42. Post-war, his best-selling WW2 adventure book Von Ryan’s Express was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra.
#ww2 #USAAF #navigator #author #houston #texas #Eisenhower

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We are privileged to be the caretakers of the POW logbook of Charles Coles, RN. Full of paintings, sketches, autographs etc, it is one of the finest examples of WW2 POW art & history.
#ww2 #royalnavy #military #POW #logbook #artist #art

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Ukrainian boys taken from their village to serve at the front with the German Army, 1944.
Michael Paziuk, left, 16-yr-old farmer's boy. Wounded, captured, interned in UK.
#WW2 #ukraine #german #ARMY

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Norwegian Resistance.
Odd Westeng (left) with 2 friends with their hideout in enemy-occupied Norway. They were part of an escape route for those on the run from the Gestapo, guiding them across the mountains to the safety of Sweden.
#WW2 #norway #norweigan #resistance

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The difficulty in bringing closure to those who lost a loved one in the Burma Campaign is exemplified here in the search for a long-lost son, Gunner Donald Kendrey of 122 Field Regt from Bradford. #WW2 #Burma #borneo #bradford #fepow #veteran

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Teenage Chris Jecchini from Athens (front row centre) with Lapworth guerrilla-commando 'train-busting' unit of Force 133, late 1944.
#WW2 #Greece #resistance #SOE #Force133 #Lapworth

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#WW2 #archive

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Happy Christmas to all our Friends, Members, supporters and volunteers!
Original artwork of Donald Ackroyd, Xmas 1942
#WW2 #ChristmasVibes #warart #art

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3 Commando boxing training
Annotated 'Stenhouse & Tinsly'
(our money's on Tinsly!)
From album of Major John Smale
#ww2 #commando #boxing

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Bah humbug at Changi gaol, Singapore.
From Iris Parfitt to Bill Clark, both civilian internees at Changi.
#WW2 #Singapore #changi #fepow #Christmas #card #art

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1942 child's story book about a boy from London evacuated to the country.
We have the accounts of 100s of child evacuees in the Archive.
#ww2 #homefront #evacuation #evacuee #children #book #childrensbook

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22-yr-old Flt Sgt Eddie Scott Jones of 428 Sqdn was shot down on 20 Apr 1944. This is his drawing of the moment his aircraft Halifax II Jp113 was hit, sketched in the POW logbook of fellow prisoner Gordon Tisbury while in Stalag VI.
#WW2 #POW #warart #art

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On the desk today: ID aircraft with playing cards. Snap, anyone?
#WW2 #Aircraft #cards

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We Remember
#WW2 #archive