Albert Jarret
He was only 17 years old when he joined the RAF in 1942 on his home island of Jamaica. He left his home in 1943 crossing the Atlantic to join the armed forces of Britain. [Read more]
He was only 17 years old when he joined the RAF in 1942 on his home island of Jamaica. He left his home in 1943 crossing the Atlantic to join the armed forces of Britain. [Read more]
IN THE MEDIA – Niagara This Week published an article written by Mr Paul Forsyth covering the occasion where Mrs Madeline Shavalier honored The Log Book with her signature. [Read more]
Mrs. Merle Taylor served as a Wireless Operator Ground (WOG) instructor at No 4 SFTS Saskatoon. Her late husband, Fred Taylor, served as a Wireless Electric Mechanic and was stationed at No. 3 SFTS Calgary [Read more]
The women pilots of WASP amassed an incredible record through WWII. They flew 60 million miles; transported every type of military aircraft; towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice; simulated strafing missions and transported cargo. [Read more]
As war broke out the 11 year old Nikolai Imchuk was at an orphanage in Uman, near Kiev, Ukraine, when it was bombed by the Luftwaffe. He joined the retreating Soviet troops but became trapped [Read more]
Mrs Nina Mikhailovna Danilkovich is 12 years old when the Great Patriotic War started in June of 1941. She lives in the region of Brest in western Belarus that becomes occupied by German troops. Similar [Read more]
SYDNEY “STEVIE” STEVENS – Fl. Lt., No. 57 Squadron RAF, Lancasters Sydney “Stevie” Stevens joined the RAF after his family’s home was bombed, parents surviving but everything he owned, down to a single pair of [Read more]
THOMAS KENEALLY – Civilian, author of “Schindler’s Ark” Almost 40 years ago, Thomos Keneally, intent on buying a briefcase, entered a leather goods store owned by a man named Poldek Pfefferberg. Pfefferberg, on learning that [Read more]
Decades later it is hard to fully comprehend the incredible story of Mr Jan Iwanowski. From Polish army to Red Army POW to PAF pilot via a Siberian Gulag and evacuation with ‘Anders Army’; his [Read more]
The stories and witness accounts told by the individual signers of TLBP are all incredible in their own ways. With some we have the privilege of a very accommodating grandson to patiently assist and answer [Read more]
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