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Missing Believed Killed : The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939-1952
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hadaway, Stuart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Air Ministry. Missing Research and Enquiry Service--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Missing persons--Investigation--Great Britain.
- Soldiers’ bodies, Disposition of--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Missing in action--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Missing in action--20th century--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of--History--Great Britain.
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British--Great Britain.
- Missing persons--Investigation.
- Missing persons.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain. Air Ministry. Missing Research and Enquiry Service--History.
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Missing persons--Investigation--Great Britain.
- Soldiers’ bodies, Disposition of--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Missing in action--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Pen and Sword, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed 'Missing Believed Killed' was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence reports from a wide variety of official, unofficial and covert sources in an attempt to establish the fate of missing aircrew, using forensic or semi-forensic work to identify personal effects passed on through clandestine channels or bodies washed up on Britain's shores. In 1944 the M.R
- Contents:
- ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER ONE - A Corner of a Foreign Field""; ""CHAPTER TWO - The Missing Problem and Wreck Recovery""; ""CHAPTER THREE - The Air Ministry Regrets: Casualty Procedure 1939-45""; ""CHAPTER FOUR - Missing Research Section, P.4 (Cas)""; ""CHAPTER FIVE - Missing Research and Enquiry Service""; ""CHAPTER SIX - Around the World I Search For Thee""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN - France, Belgium, Holland, Norway and Luxembourg""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT - No. 5 MREU Mediterranean and Middle East""
- ""CHAPTER NINE - Germany and Poland""""CHAPTER TEN - The Far East""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN - Missing Research and Graves Registration Service""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE - Last Resting Place""; ""APPENDIX A - Casualty Statistics""; ""APPENDIX B - Chronology and Organisation of Units""; ""APPENDIX C - History of P.4 (Cas)""; ""APPENDIX D - Tracing Royal Air Force Airmen""; ""APPENDIX E - War Crimes and the MRES""; ""APPENDIX F - MRES Unit Badge""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: Hadaway, Stuart South Barnsley, Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008
- ISBN:
- 9781781597989
- 1781597987
- OCLC:
- 854974860
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