A couple of lucky finds courtesy of the charity book shelf in the teapot island cafe today. The RFC one is from an SE5a pilots account that had been found after 90 years. The WW2 one is written up from 45 hours of taped interviews with David Goldberg, a Spitfire pilot and evader.
Wow! I've been researching David Goldberg's evasion over the pyrenees for a while. I retrace evasion routes and walk the mountainous sections, I have Goldberg's route but I lack some background information. May I kindly ask if there is a way where I might be able to access the book? I'm certainly open to any suggestions.
Hi, no problem. If you PM me the questions you have, I’ll leaf through the book and see if I can answer them.
Hi Markyboy, brilliant thank you. I'll definitely pm later today. For info, a Spanish author has done a book 'La Bataille des Pyrenees 1942-1944' by Josep Calvert; Josep has done a chapter on the group, it is very, very good, he traced the family of the Passeur and the route albeit not to the detail I need to go, I'm also aware they were lost for a period but recovered and went over a Col, the Col is not far from a well known route where Jewish refugee escapers went over the pyrenees, the route is marked with their story. There was another Canadian in the group 'Crosby' he served on 56 Sqn which is a unit that I also served on, its connection to retrace the route. I have all the escape and evasion reports apart from David Goldberg's, I'm aware that the RAFES had a lot of information on him but I haven't accessed it yet, I imagine the book will have most of that information. There was also a Welshman in the group, I'm trying to trace his family. In a nutshell it would be great to recognise all the Allies in the group and the Passeur. Its a tough route today, it would have been much tougher then.
