Catalogue description Flying Officer S H Dowse: prisoner of war; aircraft crashed at sea off the coast off...

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Details of AIR 81/8471
Reference: AIR 81/8471
Description:

Flying Officer S H Dowse: prisoner of war; aircraft crashed at sea off the coast off Brest, France, Spitfire X4497, 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, 20 August 1941.

[Dowse participated in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III on the night of 24/25 March 1944.]
Date: 1941 Jan 1 - 1944 Dec 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: P 361560/41
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer
Record opening date: 21 March 2019

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