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LL/38377
Unidentified photographer
1944, 26 April
Untitled [Frostbitten hands of Alan Morgan]

Gelatin silver print
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
© Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Courtesy of the Queen Victoria Hospital and the members of the Guinea Pig Club
 
The hands of Alan Morgan were frostbitten whilst he was attempting to close the rear door of his damaged Lancaster in freezing conditions and his hands froze to the fuselage. An account is given in E.R. Mayhew The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club (Frontline Books, 2010).
 
(Pers. email: 8 Nov 2012)
 
LL/38377


 

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