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Nova Pilbeam

Appalled to find dead body of Nova Pilbeam along with other male colleagues....

RAF 218 Sqd. — Salvage Unit — Southampton — 1940 (2)

Salvage Unit — Southampton — 1940 (2) 1940 was a very cold winter, the aircraft were never...

Sardines to Norway

I took troops to Stavanger, Norway... One bloke took tinned sardines — to Norway!...

William Ewart Sutcliffe, Aircrew trainee, late summer 1943.

William Ewart Sutcliffe, Aircrew trainee, late summer 1943. William Ewart Sutcliffe, No 4 Radio School, RAF...

My Family in the war

My Grandad was in the Airforce in the Spitfire Squadron... He served in Blackpool and many places in...

Up the Radiomast

William Brunt served as a Flying Officer in the R.A.F.Volunteer Reserve.During a German bombing raid he...

Sixty Years Ago Today

We started to celebrate when suddenly we heard explosions - a party of 200 Japs had got through the camp...

Radios in Ipswich

I was born in Ipswich in 1915. I was stationed in Fleixstowe during the war and went to various stations in...

Memories of VE and VJ day with the RAF

I'm John Williams, I was in the RAF during the war. The day after VE Day was announced, we immobilised...

Jack "Coogie" Evans

This is a photograph of Jack Evans, "Coogie" as he was better known, from Pontesbury, Shropshire....

War time changes

I had to cross the Atlantic to America. I sailed down the coast to South America, and then I crossed back...

Work in the R.A.F.

I was engaged on training air crew in South Africa when I was posted back to the U.K. and given a...

Russian Runs

My father was born in Halewood, Liverpool, he was in the Royal Navy on the Russian runs... When he came...

Bennets Beavers

F/O Bennet/Crew posted to RAF Wickenby: 626 Squadron - 10 May 1944. Pilot - F/O Bennet Engineer —...

Dispatcher in Belgium

I was in England and went to Belgium about 18 months before the war ended... One day we had to dive in...

My time as a welder on Lancaster bomber

From the age of eighteen to twenty one I worked as an oxy-cetylene welder on Lancaster bombers....

Secretary to Bomber Harris(A.O.C. bomber command)

I was secretary to Bomber Command Conferences,secret conference reporter at Whithall. Also Fighter Command...

War Time Memories Around Saxilby 2

Near to Lincoln a Lancaster bomber took off from Scampton adn crashed just four miles after take off....

Ubendum Wemendum

From Late 1942 until 1944, I was stationed at the RAAF — the Royal Australian Air Force at...

Team who kept Spitfires in radio contact

This is a photograph taken in 1945 of my father Charles Hope and the people he worked with when he was in...

Travels in the RAF

I travelled to Ceylon, India and Egypt among many others... I was a wireless officer in the RAF and flew on...

The Flying Bombs

What I found very interesting was that it had been an assembly workshop for German flying bombs... I have...

No Training

To do this we had to lie on a flat roof of the local school staring up at the sky awaiting a...

Wartime Travels

On arriving in India in 1943 I was posted to RAF 82 Squadron, 1944 was when we went on Active Service in...

raf built aircraft for russian air force

Ill wind?

I was due to fly back to base but had the misfortune to go down with dysentery so was left behind with...