After The Battle #067 – The Shetland Isles

Ron Hogg covers early Shetland, The First World War, The Second World War, Sullom Voe, Wartime Recollections, Scatsta, Sumburgh, The Shetland Bus. Readers’ Investigation – The Strongest, Bravest and Best – David King and Peter White describe the crash of Lancaster RF150 on its return from Germany when it attempted an emergency landing at Booker airfield in April 1945. United Kingdom – Island Farm Camp – Jeff Vincent investigates the prisoner of war camp near Bridgend, in South Wales, which saw the biggest escape of German prisoner’s during the Second World War. It Happened Here – Devastation at Darwin – The Japanese attack on February 19, 1942 by Dr Stephen Dyer. Wreck Discovery – Find the Bismark! – Dr Robert Ballard’s search for the German battleship sunk in the North Atlantic in May 1941.

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