GB 0099 KCLMA Newman - NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (fl 1945)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Newman

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NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (fl 1945)

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  • Created 1945, 1985, 1989 (Creation)

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1 file

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Worked on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), Cuxhaven, Germany, 1945.

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GB 0099 KCLMA Newman Created 1945, 1985, 1989 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Worked on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), Cuxhaven, Germany, 1945.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

Copy of photograph album concerning his work on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), 1945, with copies of related newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1985, 1989.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/htm.top

Nov 1996 Air warfare International conflicts Military engineering Military equipment Military operations Operation Backfire (1945) Photographs Visual materials War Warfare Weapons World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Equipment

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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

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Copy of photograph album concerning his work on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), 1945, with copies of related newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1985, 1989.

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1 file

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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English

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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/htm.top

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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