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Doubtful allies

We had crashed in the desert in Iraq and had no idea where we were. The next day a group of armed...

I volunteered for the Airforce

I was 18 years old when I volunteered in Leicester to join the Airforce... I wanted to be in the airforce...

7 days in a dinghy of death

Maurice was a young man who joined the air force at a time when every man or boy felt he had to...

Cinema Projectionist WRAF

I was a cinema projectionist. If the plane came back from a mission, I used to have to get the film out...

Scarecrow

Memory of one of bombing missions over Germany, when the Germans first used a cunning device we nicknamed...

Frederick Fisher in Mystery Picture

Frederick Fisher was a bass baritone and is shown in this postcard image from France, in a sou'wester,...

Boston Bomber Crews

German positions on fiercely contested Longstop Hill in Tunisia provided Boston Bombers with targets for...

HOME FORCES - Hurricanes at St. Mary's, Scilonian crash

There was a squadron of Hurricanes based at St. Mary's, on submarine patrol....

Friendly Fire

He told me a story when I was younger about a time he had been arming the machine guns and cannons on...

Women's Auxillary Air Force 1944-1947

I was a cinema projectionist, attached to the Photographic Section for meteorology and the raids that the...

Memories from Leconfield.

Many of us spent free evenings in the Beverley Arms getting quietly smashed. The pubs we used were the...

Have the shorts shrunk?

Between the two I did duty as an RAF motor transport driver and a 30mm Oerlikon gunner on the armed...

The trouble with airfields

We lived on a farm and one day we could hear a German plane coming over the cliffs at Auburn Farm......

Jack Wannop of Penrith

RAF Sgt. John Wannop, standing on right, son of Charles and Agnes Wannop, Burrowgate, Penrith, Cumbria,...

R.A.F. In Sicily

R.A.F. Servicing commandos working at a trench, testing and repairing radio equipment, while Spitfires race...

That's me - pointing the rifle

Harold Green is on the left and I, Reg Bowyer, am on the right - pointing the rifle at the person who...

A Dumfries girl helps paint the tanks white

When I was eighteen I was part of a mantenance unit at the airbase in Dumfries....

Blackpool

As a member of the RAF I was stationed at Blackpool for a while... I went to Wick where they were forming...

dam busterers

dam busterers...

My Drunken Night Out

When we were training in the ATC,we were taken for week-ends to various aerodromes in the vicinity where I...

Secrecy of the Bouncing Bomb

Whilst in the Atlantic travelling from one duty to another we were assembled....

Always under attack

It was written in stone that there was a three day shift system - so the Germans knew when to attack. I...

Fixing things

Jack "Coogie" Evans served in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and was in Italy from 1945...

Memento from a British fighter plane

He was in the RAF at the time stationed in Essex, and made it by removing the clock from a British fighter...

Spears

See more of Mr Bowyer's stories and photographs: Enjoying a beer No ordinary rickshaw ride That's...

Lost

There was a plane that had crashed in the mountains of Northern Ireland and I was part of a search team...