Harry Oakes(1921-2012)
- Special Effects
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
After service with the Royal Corps of Signals, Harry Oakes volunteered
for the AFPU and served with No 5 Section in North West Europe from
1944 - 1945. He then served in South East Asia and then returned to
cover the Allied Occupation of Vienna, December 1946. Equally at home
using a cine or still photograph camera, he was one of the AFPU team
deployed under the command of Lt H A Wilson to cover the relief of
Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) concentration camp in April 1945. He also
covered the Rhein Crossing, accompanying the airborne landing of 6th
Airborne Division, and the meeting of British and Soviet Forces on the
Elbe.
