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ACM Sir Basil Embry 30th Anniv Escaping Society Signed 3 15 Sep 76 BFPS 1547 30th Anniversary Royal Air ForceEscaping Society. Cover depicts Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil E Embry in aBlenheim 4 leading 107 Squadron over Pas de Calais in May 1940, RAFES badge and12th Region Militaire logo.. In 1940 ACM Sir Basil Embry, then a Wing Commander& OC 107 Squadron, was shot down in a Blenheim near St Omer in France. SirBasil Embry and his navigator Wg Cdr ( then Plty Off)whiting survived the crashand were taken prisoner.Wg Cdr Whiting remained a POW in various campsincluding Stalag Luft 111 Zagen ( The Great Escape Camp ) until released in1945. Sir Basil Embry was interrogated by Gen Guderian, two days later heescaped and with the help of the French people made his way through thePyrenees to Spain and Gibraltar. As Air Officer Commanding 2 Group he wasresponsible for the famous Mosquito raids on Gestapo prisons and under thealias of \'Wg Cdr Smith flew on the epic raid on Shell Mex House Copenhagen.Cover flown in a Mosquito from Hatfield to Hawarden. It was in an aircraft ofthis type that Sir Basil Embry flew. PersonallySigned by Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges KCB,CBE,DSO,DFC shotdown over France managed to rejoin his Squadron later Commanding Officer of161 and 357 Squadron ,and Air ChiefMarshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw - Chapman, GCB,KBE,DFC,AFC. WW1 Veteran Pilot,Vice President of the RAF EscapingSociety & 10 Squadron Pilot in 1918 actually airborne over France at thetime of the WW1 Armistice at 11am on 11 November 1918, who as an Air Commodorein 1944 flew his only WW2 sortie over France in a Lancaster was shot down,evaded for 5 weeks with the help of the French and then arrested and held bythe Gestapo until Liberated by the Allies in 1945.Mr W Brazil DFMNavigator on Wellington 150 Sqn shotdown and baled out walking for 10 days until he found a village thatoffered him shelter. After six weeks recuperation from a broken leg got toGibralter with the help of the resistance and flew back to England. Detailsenclosed.Numbered & Certified no 564 of 1017 Signed The Covers is in Very GoodCondition Post and Packing reduction for multiple purchases Pleaseseeother items and check response for quality of service Member Philatelic Trades Society PTS
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