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Official mail presumably from the UK to the AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice Marshall P.H.I.Playfair. Interesting m/s endorsement in red crayon: ‘By Air D.L.S.’ The HQ of the AASF was at Rheims.

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Page 1: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids

Official mail – presumably from the UK – to the

AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice Marshall

P.H.I.Playfair. Interesting m/s endorsement in red

crayon: ‘By Air D.L.S.’ The HQ of the AASF was

at Rheims.

Page 2: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 3: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 4: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 5: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 6: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 7: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 8: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 9: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 10: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 11: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 12: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids

41 Group was part of Maintenance Command.

The item was almost certainly flown by service

aircraft from Scotland to Hampshire.

Page 13: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 14: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 15: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids
Page 16: presumably from the UK AOC, AASF, who was Air Vice · PDF fileill-fated Fairey Battle, and he was taken prisoner in May 1940, having been shot down In one of the ill-conceived raids

(There is, of course, no evidence to

indicate where (or how) this item was

acquired/found/liberated.)