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Pop's Progress

by Trasksdad

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Contributed byÌý
Trasksdad
People in story:Ìý
Wng/Cdr Geoffrey Hall (Pop) Porter
Location of story:Ìý
England and Germany
Background to story:Ìý
Royal Air Force
Article ID:Ìý
A1926713
Contributed on:Ìý
28 October 2003

My story is contained within a Web Site at About links

. The relevant sections are as follows and can be accessed from the above link.

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* September, 1939! From Elmdon to Cambridge to Flight Commander at Bottisham

* Bomber Operations (UPDATED May 20,2003) (Including PRO Operations Records, the last flight and my navigator, Jack Patterson's Story)

* The Story of "The Watch" (UPDATED September 26, 2000)

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* Stalagluft III

* Comemorative painting of our last trip by Don Hall, a couple of Lamsdorf links
and a couple of poems. (UPDATED September 14, 2001)

* My route to the camp.

* Camp Layout (UPDATED June 2, 2000)

* Sketch of my Room

* The Caterpillar Club

* Close Friends and Comrades

* Classwork (UPDATED June 9, 2003)

* Christmas 1943 (UPDATED May 11, 2001)

* Camp Money

* The Great Escape (UPDATED June 6, 2003)

* Two Forced Marches to Victory.

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A second Site on the escapades of my Canadian Bomb Aimer, Don Hall, after he was incarcerated at Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf, can be accessed at About links. The sections at this Site are entitled:

* Early Days.

* First Postings

* Shipping Out

* We arrive in England

* Final training in England

* Wellsborne O.T.U.

* The 1,000 bomber raids

* We are shot down over Holland

* I end up in the Lamsdorf POW camp.

* Subsistence living.

* The Dieppe Contingent arrives.

* We prepare to escape!

* My First Escape attempt.

* Working Parties.

* I muck in with Menachem (Mem) Slor.

* My Second Attempt to Escape.

* The Beginning of the End.

* The March. (Including diary excerpts from another long-time member of the camp)

* Laying Low.

* March! March! March!

* The Brick Factory.

* The End!

* ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Again!

If you want to contact me, I can be reached at pporter@socal.rr.com

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