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Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home

12 May 1945 Brussels, Belgium

12 May 1945 Brussels, Belgium

My Dear Mum & Dad,

Just a note to let you know that I'm really on the way home at last. We flew from Landshut 134 in Bavaria to the Belgium capital and are now waiting word to move out to Drome and fly on to England. Great to be writing so casually of being in England after all these years of waiting but can hardly realise it is true yet. Our party are looking so fit and well that many out in the town won't believe that we are ex POWs. But our little party was incredibly lucky this last month. Have been treated well since recapture and I am told great yarns of things in England.

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Register form for recovered allied prisoners of war. Two years, nine months and seven days spent in captivity. This form shows 29 April 1945 as the date returned to military control, but Denis' diary and letters clearly describe his liberation by American forces on 3 May 1945.

Register form for recovered allied prisoners of war. Two years, nine months and seven days spent in captivity. This form shows 29 April 1945 as the date returned to military control, but Denis' diary and letters clearly describe his liberation by American forces on 3 May 1945.

Hardly seems worth writing of adventures since leaving Oderburg on January 27th and recapture at Kraiberg near Munich on May 3rd.