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"The way we were" exhibition, photograph

Black and white photograph, mounted. 2 photographs depicting the washing line which now stands in place of the Siegfried Line, shows a sign with a forest in the background, at Franco-German border. Caption from exhibition "Where the Siegfried Line once stood, now stands The Washing Line (1944). From Mr. Davies' collection of photographs from the Forward Trailer Section RAOC in Holland taken following the D.Day Landings. (Kathryn Jones). Natalie Pitman interviewed her grandfather. 'I was in the R.A.F. from July, 1939 to June, 1946, and was very lucky to get through the war. We had few bad scrapes but got over them. I was a Navigator. I did my training in Canada and on returning to England, was posted to operations and went on bombing raids over Germany. The raids were very scary, sometimes we were badly shot up and lost some crewman, but we made it back to base. I hope we never have another war, Natalie.'"

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

89.68I/8

Acquisition

purchase, 6/1989

Measurements

Length (mm): 240
Width (mm): 190

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Card

Categories

Social history Mid Glamorgan 1930s 1940s

Classification

events military history exhibitions Second World War
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