204928 F/Sgt Henry Eric Wells Royal Air Force (VR) ABC operator 101 Sqdn from:Vienna, Austria. I was born in Vienna in 1923 to a Polish father (Jewish) and an Austrian mother (Roman/Catholic) and came to England on a "Kindertransport" in 1939. My original name was Heinz Erich Feldstein. Although I was born in Vienna, I was never an Austrian citizen, but Polish. The Polish government in 1939 took away Polish citizenship from all Jews, wherever they where and I became "Stateless", which saved me from being interned in Britain after the outbreak of WWII. It should have been a six month stay in England, during which we trained to become farmers in Australia, but outbreak of the war stopped that. I volunteered for the RAF in 1942 and because I was German speaking trained to become an ABC Operator. I did my tour of 30 ops from Oct 44 to Feb 45 on SR-L with F/O Andrews crew. After I left the squadron I was posted to London and received intelligence training and posted to ADCC (Air Division Control Commission) in May 1945. My job being Flak disarmament and prisoner interrogation. I am now in my 87th year and live in Oakville, Canada.
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