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Life as an RAF Pilot: Chapter 2: To Southern Africa

After some three months at Bulawayo we at last got our posting to a flying station, and started to learn to...

Tweedale's War Part 6

By 7 AM the two remaining pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were playing the troops of the...

Going Overseas: a diary

This afternoon I saw a water spout reaching from the clouds to the sea, not very far from the boat. There...

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders Squadron

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders...

Travels With A Spitfire Part 2

It was with mixed feelings that, on the one hand we could see H.M.S. Warspite a little way up the coast...

Manchester Bomber Crash in Holmpton, East Yorkshire 14th January 1942 - Part 1

Wescombe Sgt. Thomas Sgt. Harper Sgt. Van Puyenbroek Sgt. Westbury Sgt. Sieve Sgt. Walker 207 Squadron...

A Wireless Operator's Tale, Part 1

My first duty was to go round the corner to Simmerson's yard because he'd reported that there was a...

Something to tell the grandchildren about (part 2)

And I was worried because my Mum and Dad didn't know that I was flying, and I said to my skipper,...

A Wireless Operator's Tale, Part 2.

So, I went through and took various tests and a sergeant came along and said, 鈥淣ow then...

Freeman to Prisoner to Freedman

Later that day we were shunted around but eventually put off the train to some tobacco-drying shed outside...

Shot Down Over Dunkirk 28th May 1940

On Tuesday 28th May 1940, four Blenheim IVF aircraft of No, 254 Squadron 鈥橝鈥� Flight based at...

How I Became a Prisoner of War: In Germany

We taxied out, behind the other kites, came the green, Pat's 鈥渙k for take off, Jack鈥�. Then...

A Letter to my Son (Part 1)

Here is the great rock which guards the door of the Mediterranean Sea for Saint George and England and it...

So you want to be a flier - An air gunner's story -Part 1: Chapters 1 to 7

The people of the Air Training Corps, the University Air Squadron before we entered the service, our...

Diary of K R Brant RAF Belgium Squadron 349 and POW Part two

Food consisted of 2 slices bread and a little jam and coffee for breakfast, one soup plate of soup for...

Air Bomber Instructor Part 2 of 3

Here we were flying Avro Ansons and Bolingbrokes. Before the course began, some of us were sent to stay at...

The Lancaster Crash at Rebr茅chien - Chapter 2

The cost for 101 Squadron was 171 aircraft lost in operations. Out of the 55,000 men of RAF Bomber Command...

Tweedale's War Part 3

The stuff had to be moved from the drome to the railway, and as there was little transport available at...

Blenheim Action in 1940: Battle of France

Tich Birch had never returned from a Heligoland 'recco' -Johnny Ball had been killed in action a...

Leslie Faircloth - Evasion from France 1944

2059. Leslie, like all RAF flight crews was equipped with a button compass and a silk map of France to help...

Journal of a Flight Sergeant / Radio Specialist - Chapter 5

The division is even sharper in Persia than in Iraq owing to the greater number of foreign traders....

RAF operations Siege of Malta

The reason for so many wireless operators was that we were going to be the first course to fly an aeroplane...

Just Another Story - Chapter 4: On the Move Again

The Russian captives would be given food only if they carried out a day's work and this explained why...

A Wireless Operator's Tale, Part 8

Before I'd chance to once again fly with my own crew, on the 14th of October, I was detailed to fly...

My RAF Life - Chapter 3

The reason for so many wireless operators was that we were going to be the first course to fly an aeroplane...

NIL TIME

No record of the Flying Bomb that Joseph destroyed on that night appears in this log, but, in the Squadrons...