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Old 14th September 2011, 18:53
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sqn ldr COLIN RAWLINS

PLEASE can anyone give me any info or where to find any on
sqn, ldr COLIN RAWLINS , he was a p.o.w at luft 3 at time of the great escape THANKS
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Re: sqn ldr COLIN RAWLINS

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...n-Rawlins.html

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He joined the Oxford University Air Squadron and became an RAF reservist, before being called up in 1939. After advanced pilot training at Montrose and at Upper Heyford, he flew with 144 (Hampden) Squadron, of No 5 Group, Bomber Command, for a full tour of operations from August to December 1940. He was awarded his DFC in February 1941.
Having been rested, Rawlins pressed for a return to active operations and in May 1941 rejoined No 144 as a flight-commander. On only the second sortie of his next operational tour, he was shot down over Holland on the flight home from a raid on Bremen.
As a result of a broken ankle sustained in a low parachute jump, for three months he was laid up in a German naval hospital at Alkmaar, in Holland. He then spent the rest of the war in various German prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag Luft III.
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Re: sqn ldr COLIN RAWLINS

THANK YOU predicatedflak thats been a big help to me
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