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Christmas 1940

Taken in Cape Town. Superimposed photo of my mom and dad....

SEAC

There was a forces paper called SEAC — South East Asia Command which came out monthly I think; and in...

Escape from Singapore

My brother and I were born in Singapore, where my father was stationed as a Sergeant with the Royal Air...

Avoiding Submarines

My brother and I were born in Singapore, where my father was stationed as a Sergeant with the Royal Air...

'Here's Hopin'

One of the places we passed through after Mogaung in Burma was a place called ‘Hopin’, so the...

"Resting in the sunshine 2"

Another photograph of my dad, Sid Bioletti, and an airman in his unit, whilst he was stationed in...

Surely not the only one

My late dad Robert Baptist served in the R.A.F. in WW2... He had a posting to H.M.S. Eagle where he patched...

Ft. Leiut. John Anderson - Early days in the lower ranks

I was stationed at an RAF base outside Newquay, Cornwall... I had done something wrong as far as the drill...

RAF Eastchurch

As the planes flew over head it was then that I realized that they were not RAF but German. The flew onto...

A child in the War

My Uncle Len was a navigator on Stirling Bombers and had finished his tour of OPS and we were invited to...

North-East Diary 1939-1945

If you are interested in the North East of England and what happend during the war this website will give...

1st World War RNACD

Intro to a remarkable story about a squadron of Royal Navy Armoured Cars who fought with the Czar of Russia...

Tommy in the Squadron band

Tommy in the Squadron band...

Spitfire Scramble

R.A.F. pilot scramble's to his Spitfire, his parachute over his shoulder, somewhere in Sicily July...

Socotra October 1945 RAF signal section

The picture is of the RAF signal section October 1945 from left to right Bill Sharpe, Pete Billing, Jock...

Information Officer Broadcasts - No.2

In Hull, the Chief Librarian became the City's Information Officer, responsible for the broadcast of...

(3)Loss of some of 755392 W/O Norman (Jock) Cameron's Nine lives

Here is another of Jock Cameron's war-time photos... He is on the right of the photograph and his two...

Ernest Wood

Ernest was in the RAF as ground crew, bomb armourer... This photo is outside the Temple of the Tooth in...

Death of your brother.

My brother was a navigator with the RAF 76 squadron based at Holme on Spalding Moor in E.Yorkshire.He was...

Training

I joined the RAF straight from school as an Aircraft apprentice, at RAF Halton, September 5th 1939. I began...

Training

I joined the RAF straight from school as an Aircraft apprentice, at RAF Halton, September 5th 1939. I began...

No propeller

It was 1943 and I was sitting outside the hanger, having got a cup of tea from the NAFFI and a...

Training

I joined the RAF straight from school as an Aircraft apprentice, at RAF Halton, September 5th 1939. Because...

A RAF Flight Engineer "Up the pole"

My dad spent 6 weeks based in Lodève, southern France in 1947, in the latter period of his RAF...

Cottesmore, Rutland

Here, I was part of a training unit, with Hampden Bombers, and at that time, the two VC Flt. Lt. Learoyd...

Plane Crash

On one occasion during and air raid warning I saw a German fighter, which had been attacked by one of ours,...