Phil Lamason, New Zealand soldier and pilot (died 2012)

Phil Lamason

World War II pilot from New Zealand, Buchenwald concentration camp survivor (1918–2012)

Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined the…