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The Service Years (part 08)

Jock was ordered to come up from his dispersal site to the Flying Control Tower to 'stand by' for a...

Just Another Story - Chapter 5: Stalag Luft 1XC Kraysburg

The food we were served was appalling but we were informed that it was the same as that served to...

In Search Of The Enemy: Typhoon pilot

Even with the poor visibility, and the low cloud that shrouded the English Channel, the enemy aircraft, an...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot: A POW in Germany

He can speak French, Spanish, Italian, German and at the moment is starting on Russian. At the Court of...

Manchester Bomber Crash in Holmpton, East Yorkshire 14th January 1942 - Part 2

Eric was killed along with the rest of the crew on Wednesday 14th January 1942 when his Avro Manchester...

I Lived to Fly -Part 2

Tam and I taxied up the Halifax and the cable was attached. Charlie Cranmer and the boffin flew in the...

I Lived to Fly -Part 1

31 Halifaxes left Middleton St. George. As you take off the glider always rises above the tow aircraft,...

A Midsummer's Night Dip in the Baltic Chapter 1

Foreword This is the account of the fate of one Avro Lancaster of No.57 Squadron, dispatched to drop mines...

Fred Cole part 5: Missions Completed 1945

Dad worked in Personnel at Rolls Royce in Derby until taking the position of Personnel Manager at Rolls...

Operation Oyster, Part 2

Under the nose of the A/c was a ' sea switch ' which when it came into contact with sea water an...

U X B Exploits of RAF Bomb Disposal Experts

This time it was goodbye to working on gun-turrets, searchlights, bombing etc., as I packed up my kit and...

Lost Halifax.

The 3rd battery of 815 Marine Flak battery had three 105mm anti aircraft guns in seperate cuppolas , teir...

My Time with the RAF

I'd come off a 12 hour night shift, and had been asleep for about an hour when a man from the Orderly...

N1408 and the Attack on Oil Refineries at Hanover, 18/19th May1940

It was with some excitement and anxiety that the crews of the aircraft were instructed to assemble at the...

Interlude before action

At that time RAF Grantham was used as a flying school for trainig pilots, employing the underpowered Fairey...

Bert's War.

Dad listed his mates as; - Ted; Wal; Denis Hunt; Tilly — John Tilston; Bugs Holliday; Stanley; and...

rene's war

But my most horrific moment came when our friend ‘Big Bill’ Piercy , a Merchant Navy Officer ,...

The Dam Buster Pilots

Ann Tallis: I became interested because there was a plaque in Sherbourne Church commemorating one of the...

The Service Years (Part 12): RAF St Mawgan

Halfway between the drome and the Sergeants' Mess, a brand, sparkling new young Officer - just out of...

Tweedale's War: Part 2, Pages 12 to 17

Eventually, however, we put into Freetown. Perhaps ‘put into’ is misleading as the harbour...

Life with No.3 Group Bomber Command

I became an aircraft fitter and started on Wellingtons which had air-cooled radial engines, so I did a...

Diary of K R Brant RAF 349 Squadron and POW

Got very little food -bread, 2 spuds, cup of soup, bit of marg. - not much, is it? The food is very...

Flight to Heliopolis Part Two

The main street of Barce was thick with two lines of army vehicles all heading towards Alexandria. We met...

Father and Son

In the meantime, the balloon defence at Hull had been wound down, and my father Thomas Storey, had been...

The Diary of Sgt. Bernard Clark RAFVR Nov 30th-Dec 10th 1943

The boys Phil, Loyd and Bill went to the ENSA show, Alan and I mad the 2 mile journey to the nearest...

Round the world at government expense Chapter9: With the RAF in Japan

Iwakuni airfield had been a major Japanese airforce base both for landplanes and sea based aircraft... The...