Wishing you all the best for 2025 and to many more blogs.
I’ve mentioned the BOAC Library before but HERE are a some more images. BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. In 1949 it absorbed British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA) although BEA continued to operate British domestic and European routes. In 1971 BOAC and BEA merged forming today’s British Airways. Both BOAC and BEA had on board libraries with a variety of books from different publishers to loan and readers were invited to keep them if they hadn’t finished it by the end of the flight. I also like the one from Singapore Airlines Library, just what you want to read at 36,000 feet!
There were a couple of PANs on eBay recently that I was definitely interested in but went above my maximum. They were ‘The Dam Busters’ which went for £78.99 and ‘Enemy Coast Ahead’ which went for £52. What made them interesting was the number of POW signatures they claimed to have, one with 19 and the other 17. It would have been fascinating to research the ones that could be read,
