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Month: May 2025

The British Latin American War Effort in Chile: A Transnational Network of Collaboration during the World Wars

Written by Roberto Pérez Castro

Juan Alberto (“Jack”) Adams Langley, the son of an English engineer, was born and raised in Chile. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he could have stayed comfortably in a neutral country, unbound by any recruitment or conscription by the British government. However, he travelled halfway across the world to join the Royal Air Force, where, as a Flying Officer, he was shot down in northern France in July 1944.

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