J B Reypert (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original festive colour wraps 19x25cm. Printed by Walter Pearce & Co, Brentford. 36pp including wraps, with several b/w photos and drawings. Wraps very good, spotted. Interiors near fine. This opens with a Message from AIOC Chair William Fraser, who notes "the first Christmas of peace for six long years", and that while "The danger and trials of war are now behind us, there are many post-war problems to be solved". Content includes: Alanbrooke's visit to Abadan and Masjid-i-Sulaiman; Iranian Press Delegation visit to the UK representing "a number of the influential papers in Iran" arranged by the Ministry of Information; a talk on Operation Pluto (by British engineers, oil companies and Armed Forces to build oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord); the date palm; memoirs from a fictionalised location called "Balkania" (by J.B. Reypert); experience in the Women's Land Army (by Sheila Buckland of AIOC's Information Branch); codes and ciphers (by E.S. Pickering of AIOC's Code Office); the launch of new tanker MV British Success; staff wartime casualties, awards, and profiles; Notes from Iran (Abadan football team visits Tehran), Llandarcy and Sunbury.