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Moreover, the Squadron's Harvard aircraft was now fully employed carrying the Boys to Calcutta on a...
Tuesday, Spinner and me spent the day watching planes and gliders take off and land whilst lounging on the...
That night after a most tiring day bumping over ruts in the sand and jolting through sudden gullies, we...
1945 With the German Officer was a Sergeant Major and about 50 soldiers, others having returned to their...
The second bomb was reported to have gone down the funnel blowing the engine room to smithereens and a...
With my R.A.F. travel pass I took a train firstly to Grimsby,Lincolnshire to visit Peggy, my A.T.S girl...
Etta my sister was a nurse in Robroyston Hospital, near Bishopbriggs on the Eastern outskirts of Glasgow...
One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...
Every man in the billet, drinker and non-drinker, clubbed into a common fund, each an equal amount, and we...
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Sgt Moffat Precautionary landings Flew horribly and threatened with circuits because of my bad landings....
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At long last we saw a coastline and scraped over the cliffs - it later proved to be Bournemouth - and...
The Accident Investigation Section consisted of a Group Captain, the boss, aided by an administrative...
At twenty-one I was an old man on a squadron, but too young and immature at Command H.Q. It came as a...
Among those present at the ceremony, as reported in 'The Whitehaven News' in the edition published...
Sgt Colmer Instrument flying, low flying, crosswind take-offs and landings. Sgt Colmer Low flying,...
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