Above: British propaganda leaflet thanks Jamaica for supplying bomber planes
Saturday 17 January 1pm-4.30pm
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North.
Free entry: First come, first served www.iwm.org.uk
Rare chance to meet a surviving WW2 Veteran.
Jamaican, Alan Wilmott served with the Royal Navy and Air Force.
He will give a short talk and take questions.
We will also be screening the documentary Caribbean Women at war about the black female contribution. The focus in this session will be on what conditions were like when tens of thousands of black troops landed in Britain increasing the local black population from 10,000 to 100,000.
The above topics are absent in the school system and mainstream history and this is a valuable chance to fill in those gaps of knowledge .For the first time in 60 years the Museum is hosting an excellent exhibition on the Caribbean effort in WW2 which ends in October.