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P.O.W. OPERATIONS ON THE RUN SHOT DOWN DAILY LIFE GENERAL

Snowy Campbell's Death March

Bruce Burchfield's close shave

Ted Hankey's 13 days to freedom

Bobby Gibbes rescues Rex Bayly

A tribute to Michael Glennan

Fr. Bill Stevens on ANZAC Day

Eric Canning's escape attempts

Roy Fitzgerald's SYRIAN war

Norm Caldwell describes 9 days on the run

Alan Clark helps (?) John Hodgkinson

A medic's view ... by Stuart Morris

Rev Fred McKay's letter to Home Folks

Alex Gould on Wal Hogg and Ken Watts

Peter Jeffrey on the Squadron's WWll "tally"

Dave Ritchie wanders the desert

Nicky Barr's story ex: "Valiant Youth" by J.C.Waters

Bob Ulrich meets Peter Jeffrey

Peter King on the spirit of ANZAC Day

Joseph Holder's resurrection

Reg Pfeiffer's Buderim experience 

Fred Eggleston's Amazing Escapades

 Lew Ranger pays tribute to his R.A.F. pal "Jungle Jim" Edmonds 

Bill Shoesmith invades Sicily

Bob Ulrich on the value of history 

Alec Richardson ... out for the war

Neil Handsley describes Butterworth

Alan Clark's Lousy Long March through Yugoslavia

THE STORY OF SQUADRON LEADER HICKEY

The 3 Padres

How the Association began

Snow Campbell's 1941 Diary

"The" Me109 ... by Ken McRae

   

Gloster Gauntlets: Les Fitzpatrick recalls details.

MATES ... Lew Ranger's Eulogy to Bluey White

 

Bobby Gibbes describes operations on 13-12-41

   

A graphic description of life in the desert

Newspaper in 1942

 

Roy Fitzgerald describes his own different musterings

    Tom Russell's story of his 1943 trip to Algiers with his mates, in his cliftied Chevvie.

Association Reunion photos of past years

 

"Blackie" and "Blondie"s war  (story by J.C. Waters)

    John Howell-Price recalls  his 1943 leave  to Algiers in Tom Russell's Chevvie  
 

Tom Russell's experiences

    Murray Nash: about Mount Sasso + a story by Neil Smith describing the incident.  
 

Bobby Gibbes describes his first operation

       
 

George Dumont tells the story of  John Parr's 'resurrection'.

       
 

Bob Gibbes describes a pilot's fears 

       
 

Arthur Pardey trains  for  3 Squadron

       
 

Sergeant Pilots: Danny Boardman & Keith Kildy

       
  Ops on 10 March 1943 over Tunisia supporting the Free French at Ksar Rhilane.        
  Bobby Gibbes's extraordinary article: "There's no glamour in Air Warfare".        
 

 Corporal Darryl Luck's story on 3 Squadron’s involvement in "Operation Enduring Freedom" 

       
 

The Ops. diary of Flight Sergeant Brian M Thompson, DFM

       

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