Above: Elite Nigerian 81st Division known as the Black Tarantulas as painted in Burma by Captain Hugh Micklem
Monday 29th September 6pm-8.30pm
West Indian Ex Services Commission, 161-167 Clapham Manor Road SW4
Tube: Clapham North.Free entry: first come, first served
A detailed and extensive look at the African and Caribbean war effort with video clips and interviews with Trinidadian Spitfire and Barbadian bomber pilots. Photos of Nigerian troops fighting in Burma. Somali ships and sailors, black and asian women secret agents, German submarines in the Caribbean and the importance of Africa and India’s raw materials all feature. All the information you never got at school and that is still not taught to this day will be revealed. WW2 Veterans will also be present. Part of Lambeth Peace Month
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