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Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concen
Lamason c. 1942
Lamason (third from right) and his crew standing in front of their Lancaster heavy bomber; early 1944.
Lamason in the pilot's seat of the cockpit of a Stirling Bomber in 1942
Lamason (centre) and another airman (Ken Chapman) playing chess in Chevreuse with a Frenchwoman whose family hid them for two weeks.
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreic
Phil Lamason
…Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined the RNZAF in September 1940, and by April 1942 was a pilot officer serving with the Royal Air…
Buchenwald Prisoners Undressing 80135
Buchenwald Prisoners Roll Call 10105
The inscription on the entrance gate to Buchenwald concentration camp, which reads: "Jedem das Seine" ("To each what he deserves")
Dutch Jews stand during a roll call after their prisoner transport from Buchenwald in May 1941 in camp Mauthausen on 26 June 1941.