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55 Company RASC (AD) And The RAF Deliver Psywars Leaflets To The CTs - Part 5

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Subject :55 Company RASC (AD) and the RAF deliver Psywars Leaflets to the CTs - Part 5
Published By : None 
Location : Malaya
Estimated Year : 1958
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Norman Doctor / Ken Thomas, UK
Remark : The photographs show, from left to right:

  • The aircraft turns for home.

  • Ken (right) and his crew have time to relax, sitting on the now-empty baskets and enjoying a cuppa.

  • Ken and Muriel Thomas still relaxing in 2009, just 51 years after the sequence of photographs were taken and,

  • Also in 2009, Bette and Norman Doctor who kindly scanned all these photographs for us from Ken's collection and then provided the descriptions.

    • When the Emergency ended, 55 Company took on the role of training the Armed Forces Maintenance Corps in the art of air supply. Many Malayans won their wings and started to take part in air drop operations. However, despite the emergency being declared at an end, 55 Company continued to bear the responsibility for supply to the Jungle areas and police Forts in Northern Perak and areas close to the Thai border.

    To go to Part 1, click here.

    To see an example of a Psywars leaflet, click here.

    Filename : 20090802-016