Bob Porter, a member of AFEES, wrote about his WWII experiences in his book The Long Return. Our thanks to his son Leslie and daughter Shelley for permission to reproduce the book here. The book appears below in a series of pdf files following an article about Bob Porter that appeared in Flightlines, a publication of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

The contents of the book appear as follows as pdf files.  Click on the link to a particular pdf file to view that part of the book.  A file should load in a few seconds.

• Front Cover, Author, Publisher, Dedication, Acknowledgments, and Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 September to Overseas 1943, pp. 11-19
• Chapter 2 Bornemouth to June Sixteenth, pp. 20-49
• Chapter 3 June Sixteenth to Rakers, pp. 50-91
• Chapter 4 Rakers to Roger Coming, pp. 92-115
• Chapter 5 Roger to January Second, pp. 116-141
• Chapter 6 January to Concentration Camp, 142-164
• Chapter 7 Concentration Camp to POW, pp. 165-175
• Chapter 8 To Nuremburg, pp. 176-190
• Chapter 9 Nuremburg to the Big March, pp, 191-196
• Chapter 10 The Big March to Mooseburg, pp. 197-203
• Chapter 11 Mooseburg to England, pp. 204-237
• Chapter 12 Back in Canada, pp. 238-251
• Chapter 13 Fifty Years Later, About the Author, Comments from Readers pp. 252-273
• Back Cover