Robert Douglas (Doug) Hughes as a warrant officer, 466 Squadron, RAAF, 1942-1945, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton

417305 Warrant Officer (WO) Robert Douglas (Doug) Hughes, 466 Squadron, RAAF, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers topics related to WO Hughes' RAAF training in Australia and period as a prisoner of war in Germany, including joining up as a teenager in the hope of flying Spitfires; being shot down over Berlin shortly after completing his training; evading capture by hiding in a tree; capture and interrogation by the Germans; life and conditions in a German prison camp such as food, diseases, violence and lice infestation; forced marches at the close of the war; liberation by the Americans; post-war life and becoming an accountant after the war. Doug died several months after the interview was made.