The Air Training Corps was very useful preparation for life in the RAF. Life was very tough for Bill in...
I was an air fitter, doing periodical DIs. I was in 5 Group Bomber Command at Grantham, which was the...
My lasting Memory of World War II is………………taking part in my first...
I had managed to trace Bernard by searching the internet and finding the C.V of an artist of the same name...
Served 4 years in Wales — 3 at Barry Docks then posted to Waddington Aerodrome Leicestershire loading...
I was posted to Topcliffe, No.4 Bomber Group as a Ground Engineer. The monotony was relieved by the arrival...
Photo one - the workhouse HQ. The photograph attached is just one of the many I took when commissioned in...
They used to say “when the Germans fly over, the English duck. When the English fly over the Germans...
He was in the RAF where he processed photographs brought back in from reconnaissance flights. He also had a...
Here is my dad having a full range of "flying experiences" in the summer of 1947 in the last months...
An American bailed out of his damaged bomber and landed in field at Gulpher Farm, Felixtowe. He left his...
The Germans Surrender. Here is my original copy of the Daily Mail from 1945 with the front cover of the...
Aircraftsman Jack Glasson found himself posted to RAF Portreath. The Ops Room was then over a bakery in...
Photo two - eager recruits. The two boys seen here in the attached photo struggling to fit flying gear were...
This is a copy of the scroll received from the King commemorating the service of Leonard Stanley....
Up in the higher fields on the farm with my father, I saw a bomber flying over and it was accompanied by...
Frank William Martin from Derby's West End was reported missing in 1942 whilst flying operations in the...
However we know he was in Burma and we know that in 1945 he went on a ship from Calcutta to Rangoon......
I was Wirless operator on a Wellington Bomber , The message was to Rockall, a famous island with no one on...
Taken at Davenport Royal Navy Barracks....
In an old family photo album I have found two pictures of a group of airmen with a Wellington Bomber during...
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