Operation Exodus and the forgotten story of The Long March and the world’s largest airlift of people – Thursday 3rd April 2025 18.30
On the 80th anniversary of the start of Operation Exodus we are delighted to be joined by leading historian, Mike Ingham.
During nine weeks at the end of the Second World War in Europe in early 1945 more than 354,000 British, Commonwealth, and Allied former Prisoners of War (POWs) were repatriated by air in what was – and still is – the world’s largest airlift of people.
The airlift involved many types of aircraft flown by crews from the RAF, RAAF, RCAF, USAAF, Polish Air Force, and French Air Force, a key element being the 72,319 former POWs flown by Lancasters of Bomber Command in Operation Exodus.
On what will be the 80th anniversary, aviation historian Mike Ingham recounts in this illustrated presentation the little known story of the forced evacuation of POWs on treks of 500 miles on foot, liberation, flights out of Germany, and eventual return home to England by air.
The evening starts with a delicious hot supper in The Hub Café at 18.30.
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