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Gwyn Martin is a Welsh photographer and pharmacist born in the Rhondda in 1921 and who died in 2001 in Aberystwyth. == Wartime experience == Martin was still at school when he enlisted with the RAF at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. After completing his training at No. 15 OTU as a Navigator in April 1941, he joined No. 75 Squadron RAF at RAF Feltwell flying the Vickers Wellington bomber. Three months and 20 missions later he was awarded the DFM after a daylight bombing of the docks at Brest inflicting further damage to the German battleship ''Gneisenau''. His aircraft Wellington 1457 "P" was severely damaged with repeated attacks by four ME109's. P/O Curry returned the damaged aircraft for a high speed crash landing at Boscombe Down without wheels or flaps. Martin finished his first "tour" before his 20th birthday and spent the next six months at 12 OTU as a Check Navigator / Bomb Aimer before returning for a second “tour” in May 1942 with a posting to No. 150 Squadron RAF at RAF Snaith. In October 1942, on the day after his 21st birthday, Wellington BK.309 “N” was on a minelaying mission in Haugesund. The aircraft was hit by flak and severely damaged while flying at 600 feet at night. P/O Ken Rees managed to ditch the burning aircraft in a small inland lake (Langavatnet / Tysvaer) (The wreckage of the aircraft were discovered by Martin during a visit to Norway in 1964 along with the remains of the rear gunner). F/Sgt Don Taylor R.C.A.F. and F/Sgt Harry Dalziel R.A.A.F. were killed while the rest of the crew were captured and spent the next two and a half years as POW in Stalag Luft III near Zagan in Poland. In January 1945 he was among the POW's force marched in Arctic conditions over 100 km to Spremberg then Luckenwalde where he was liberated by the Russians. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwyn Martin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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