File:Colditz glider.jpg

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English: The only known picture of the Colditz glider: assembled by Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best in the lower attic above the chapel.

Photograph taken April 15th 1945 by Lee Carson, one of two newspaper correspondents assigned to Colonel Leo Shaughnessy's task force which relieved the Castle.

Image:Originalglider.jpg (english wiki)
Date
Source
  • P.R.Reid "Colditz: The Final Story", photograph caption
  • P.R.Reid "The Latter Days at Colditz", chapter XXV.
Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph HU 49529 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.
Author
Lee Carson (1921–1973) wikidata:Q125019204
 
Date of birth/death 1921 Edit this at Wikidata 1973 Edit this at Wikidata
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Original Colditz Cock glider inside Colditz Castle, circa April 15, 1945.

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20:42, 27 May 2006Thumbnail for version as of 20:42, 27 May 2006568 × 416 (49 KB)GmdImage:Originalglider.jpg (english wiki)

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