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Lifebelt

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Collection
Mannie Lecker Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
artefact
Physical Description
1 object
Fonds No.
1043; 014
Date
1944
Collection
Mannie Lecker Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
artefact
Physical Description
1 object
Date
1944
Fonds No.
1043
File No.
014
Storage Location
7-3F
Notes
Consists of the lifebelt issued by the RCAF and worn by Mannie Lecker during his crossing of the English channel after D-Day (June 6, 1944).
Subjects
Lecker, Mannie, d. Dec. 27, 2007
Royal Canadian Air Force
World War, 1939-1945
Operation Overlord
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Normandy
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Parachute scrap

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16757
Collection
Mannie Lecker Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
artefact
Physical Description
1 object
Fonds No.
1043; 015
Date
ca1944
Collection
Mannie Lecker Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
artefact
Physical Description
1 object
Date
ca1944
Fonds No.
1043
File No.
015
Storage Location
7-3F, Box 003
Notes
Consists of a scrap of a parachute. Note on parachute written by Mannie Lecker indicates that he took the scrap from the parachute of a downed German pilot.
Subjects
Operation Overlord
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Normandy
Lecker, Mannie, d. Dec. 27, 2007
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail