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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (fl 1945)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Newman

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (fl 1945)

Date(s): Created 1945, 1985, 1989

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

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CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Worked on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), Cuxhaven, Germany, 1945.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of photograph album concerning his work on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), 1945, with copies of related newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1985, 1989.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/htm.top

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Operation Backfire (1945) | Military operations | Military engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

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