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Three Fleet Air Arm Crew About To Return Home From South Africa, December 1945

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Three Fleet Air Arm Crew About To Return Home From South Africa, December 1945
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John Maley (left), ‘Jobie’ (centre) and ‘Dougie’ (right).

“We were homeward bound in the French troopship Ile-De-France which was then the fifth largest ship in the world, and although it travelled thousands of miles during the war it was never once attacked. There were over five thousand personnel on board.” – John Maley

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Location:
South Africa, Durban
Categories:
Daily Life
Tags:
1940s 1945 attack beret boat cap cigarette colony commonwealth details Durban Empire Fleet Air Arm hand on hip hands clasped head-dress leisure men peacetime Reminiscence rickshaw Second World War ship shirt shoes sitting smiling smoking soldier South Africa standing THELMA transport travel trousers uniform world war two
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