Phil Lamason
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title:
Phil Lamason
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Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined the RNZAF in September 1940, and by April 1942 was a pilot officer serving with the Royal Air Force in Europe. On 8 June 1944, Lamason was in command of a Lancaster heavy bomber that was shot down during a raid on railway mar
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World War II pilot from New Zealand, Buchenwald concentration camp survivor (1918–2012)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lamason
date created:
2009-01-05T12:43:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T05:09:28Z
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