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thousands of other partisans for your fight during these darkest of days.
    Please tell all comrades that I would be very happy to hear from them. Could you ask them to send me their photograph because I can’t remember all the names – only the nicknames
    I would really like to come to Poland and see you all but unfortunately I am not a rich man so I doubt if I can ever be able to do it.
    I have to say thank you to you and your comrades for all the happy moments we shared, despite being constantly under threat from the Germans.
    Signed Tom Storey

APPENDIX 3
    Transcript of a letter written by Tom Storey to Stanislaw Mikolajczyk in November 1947
    Unicorn Hotel
    Corve Street
    Ludlow
    Salop

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    Dear Mr Mikolajczyk,
    I wish to offer my congratulations to you on your escape from Poland. I also sympathise with you for having to escape twice from your own country in the space of a few years.
    Perhaps you will remember me as the RAF pilot who was shot down in Poland and lived for a while with your partisans. On my escape to this country I was ordered up to London to meet you at the Polish Embassy and at the same time I met the Polish C in C.
    Being an escaper from enemy territory myself I can understand the mental and physical strain you have undergone, and I am happy that you have sought refuge in this country as I did with your people.
    I have recently written an article which has been accepted for publication in the near future, on what I know of Russia, in the hope that is will put this country on guard against them and also help Poland and other occupied countries in their struggle for freedom.
    I trust a good rest will be granted you and I reiterate I am glad you got away. If I could be of any help to you at all I would be happy to try to reciprocate your kindness to me.
    I am, Sir,
    Your obedient servant
    Signed T. Storey

APPENDIX 4
    Chapter 1:
    Crew of Halifax JN888 of 148 Squadron, lost 26 th November 1943
    Sgt Peter Crosland RAFVR
    Crew of Halifax EB140 of 624 Squadron, lost 1 st December 1943
    F/Sgt Dennis John Howlett RAFVR
    F/Sgt Raymond Percival Atkinson RAFVR
    Cpl Sidney George Cleland RAFVR
    F/Sgt Arthur Ernest Edwards RAFVR
    F/Sgt John Kenneth Hughes RAFVR
    F/Sgt Vernon Leslie Miller RCAF
    F/Sgt James Kenneth Shewring RAFVR
    SOE Mission Personnel, lost 1 st December 1943
    Major Ian Smart
    Captain Jack Stephenson
    Lieutenant Alan Toley
    George McKenna
    Corporal Ian Kesterton
    Crew of Liberator AL509 of 148 Squadron, lost 3 rd December 1943
    F/Lt Maurice Passmore RAFVR
    WO James Herbert Stevenson Clarke RCAF
    F/Lt Eldon Burke Elliott RCAF
    F/Lt Harry James Crawford RNZAF
    F/Sgt Edwin Archibald Toole RCAF
    WO Ralph Edward Hawken RCAF
    F/Sgt William Joseph Dowle RAFVR
    Chapter 2:
    Crew of Halifax JN888 of 624 Squadron, lost 14 th July 1944
    P/O Leslie Arthur Peers RCAF
    F/O Albert John Baythorp RAFVR
    Sgt Jack Brooke RAFVR
    Sgt Harry Clarke RAFVR
    F/O Charles Spencer Goble RAFVR
    Sgt James Edward Walsh RAFVR
    Sgt William Ronald Wharmby RAFVR
    Crew of Halifax HR674 of 148 Squadron, lost 19 th October 1943
    F/Lt William Ross Forester RAFVR
    F/Sgt James Clement Cole RAFVR
    F/O Peter Raymond Flyte RAFVR
    F/O Francis Jack Hunter RNZAF
    F/O Edward Frank Myers RAFVR
    Sgt Peter Twiddy RAFVR
    F/Sgt Harold Williams RAFVR
    SOE Personnel lost 19 th October 1943
    Captain Alfred Careless RAC
    Signalman David William Rockingham RCS
    Chapter 3:
    SOE SPILLWAY mission personnel lost 1 st February 1944
    Major G.E. Layzell, South Lancashire Regiment
    Crew of Halifax JN959 of 148 Squadron, lost 11 th February 1944
    F/Sgt Ian McGugan RAAF
    F/Sgt Bernard Austin Hough RAAF
    F/Sgt Percy Garfield Mann RAAF
    F/Sgt Edward George Lee RAAF
    F/Sgt Nairne Edwin Plaxton DFM RAF
    Sgt James Palmer RAFVR
    Sgt Frederick Moses Cyril Henry Harris RAFVR
    Crew of Halifax JP292 of 148 Squadron, lost 3/4 July 1944
    W/O Charles Thomas Fairweather RAF
    F/O John Stanley Brown RCAF
    F/Sgt John Easton RAFVR
    P/O Allen Haigh RAFVR
    F/Sgt Ronald