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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Anyone watching Clash of the Nations: Louis v Schmeling? We have intel on the German boxer's capture in one of our monthly newsletters 🥊
#ww2 #BoxingHistory #german #schmeling

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Most inappropriately named street.
Lébisey, France, June 1944.
#ww2 #Dday #lebisey #caen #france

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Parachute silk nightdress belonging to Millicent ‘Millie’ Penny (née Perkins) WAAF.
#ww2 #parachute #silk #Nightwear #archive

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Our latest newsletter! Every month, read personal experiences of the war from our vast archive of previously unpublished first-hand accounts.
Free to our Friends.
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Major Richard Carr-Gomm OBE saw action in Normandy in 1944 with 4 Bn, 6 Guards Tank Bde, Coldstream Guards.
Sketch of Richard by Dutch civilian on the night before the battalion’s victory drive through Kiel 10th May 1945.
#ww2 #coldstreamguards #stetch #veteran

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POW diary of Navigator F/O William Brittain of 418 Squadron whose Mosquito VI RS604 was lost due to flak over the Netherlands on 22 Feb 1945 while on a massed squadron raid.
#ww2 #ww2history #RCAF #mosquito #POW #diary #veterans #archives

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Rudlof Feistauer served as a radio operator in 2. SS-Infanterie-Brigade (mot), operating in Russia/Ukraine in 1941. He served for 4 years.
We hold his memoirs and an audio interview recorded in 2003.
#ww2 #ww2history #germany #russia #Heer #SS

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Digitised today, 37 original pieces of art by Piper/Stretcher Bearer of 9th Battalion the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) with whom he saw action on D-Day.
#ww2 #art #warart #artist #veteran

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Red Cross postcard from Wolfgang Hessmann, German POW in Russia, to liberated POW pal Kurt Exner in Bavaria, Nov 1948. Written from a Soviet detention hospital camp in Magnitogorsk.
#ww2 #POW #German #Russia #gulag #Magnitogorsk #postcard #letter #veterans

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A knotted hanky for your head & Horlicks tablets - lifeboat survival WW2.
These belonged to 17-yr-old Deck Apprentice Mervyn Manson of SS Empire Zeal, sunk 02 Nov 1942.
#ww2 #merchantnavy #lifeboat #handkerchief #horlicks #survival

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Seeing as #football has been trending, here is a WW2 Army football badge 🙂
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This one was awarded to Harry Taylor of 146 Field Ambulance RAMC.

#ww2 #ww2history #army #RAMC #footballfans #badges #awards

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WW2 City of the Dead: Meiktila - Rodney Percy Royal Signals https://t.co/1HothW4o4X via @YouTube

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1,000-stitch Senninbari given to child internee Celia Meade FEPOW at Maymyo Camp, Burma, by Japanese guard Katsumasa Kato from Tokyo. This was stitched by Japanese students from 'Higher Girls’ School, 2nd Year’ as a good luck talisman.
#ww2 #Burma #senninbari #fepow

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Teenage firefighter in the London Blitz WW2 - George Wheeler https://t.co/LCLi3GNN1n via @YouTube

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Sweltering in the heat?
So were these prisoners at POW camp Oflag 79 Brunswick, Germany, in 1944.
Artist Captain Denis Swinney - whose fabulous wartime art collection is preserved here in our archive.
#ww2 #POW #brunswick #warart #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ

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From microphones in tent poles to a decent cup of tea, how to extract info from captured Japanese prisoners. https://t.co/H012SzRzW9 via @YouTube

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☀️Intelligence Officer Major Clarence 'Dare' Newell.
Next to him, tanning nicely, is SOE operative Bill Foss.
Meerut, Force 136 HQ, India.
From the papers of E Lucas.
#ww2 #SOE #meerut #india

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Japanese Good Luck flag presented to Kanji Iwata.
#ww2 #japanese #Japan #goodluck #flag

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Omaha beach D-Day - German Gotthard Liebich https://t.co/AM7Xgbo5xE via @YouTube

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Miyata, Fukuoka #9-B POW camp, Japan. Forced labour for coal mining. From the papers of Albert Ford.
#ww2 #fepow #japan