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World Service,08 Feb 1993,29 mins

Africa and the Second World War - Part Two

African Perspective

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African veterans recall guarding Egypt, the North African campaigns of Tobruk and El Alamein, and invading Italy, fighting with the free French, and being a prisoner of war, including an account of John Henry Smythe of Sierra Leone who was a navigator with the RAF. Presented Martin Plaut.

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