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Burnt On Crashing But Completing The Tour

On 16th June 1943 I finally made the grade and became a Sgt. Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and headed off...

Teenage Fun in Wartime; then a Pilot's Wife

"Stratford was a glorious place for a teenage girl to be, with hotels full of lovely young men in blue...

A R.A.F. Barber - Romance and Marriage in Occupied Germany by Bill Stafford

Edna left for the wedding from my good friend Herr Voigt's Home. She was dressed in a lovely white...

A Rhodesian Pilot's Story - Chapter 3 - Escape Attempts

Because of the tying-up episode, the Germans had to take reprisals, so the RAF in Stalag VIII B were...

The War in the Skies by Flight Lt DFC King

On D-Day morning we went to bomb the Coastal Gun Battery at Mont Heud, which dominated the Gold Beach...

The Horsa Glider

Sufficient to say, I had a further aircrew medical and was again rated PNB and issued with ny aircrew cap...

Wartime Education of an Engineer, Wolverhampton

On the field, the duty officer would decide the runway direction and instruct the electrician accordingly....

Winged Chariots -Part 9: The Long Walk

The prisoners were marched out, little knowing that the ordeal would last for the next 21 days before...

Doing My Bit in WW11: With the RAF

Another lucky occasion was when we returned from a mission on a night when it was below freezing even at...

My Life in the RAF. (Part 3).

The 'Prince of Wales' never had a proper 'shakedown' cruise and she still had civilians...

The Crash of Hudson 3a in Portugal

We reached Portreath only to find next day there were heavy falls of snow which closed the airport and it...

An RAF Electrician's War

There was a Flying Boat base here.The main bases for the Flying boats were in Ceylon, but after their...

Non operational flying 1942-3

Even though it was wartime and Germany was the common enemy, there was a Jewish organisation in Palestine...

F/Lt J.R.Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM 155220 Part 2

Just to show the lads my new Lancaster I did a low pass past the flying control tower, in the summary of...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Eight - Corsica

I then learnt that Allied plans called for aircraft-detection and fighter-control radar stations in...

My RAF Life - Chapter 4

Even though it was wartime and Germany was the common enemy, there was a Jewish organisation in Palestine...

Bomber Command

I helped prepare the Bomb Store for the Dam Buster bombs, but with the new squadron becoming operational 49...

My Missing Uncle-113 Squadron

This was my other uncle, Bernard, who had gone to fight in World War Two, and had never come home again. By...

Cranwell Boys' School, 1935

When we were flying around, tak颅ing our turns to communicate with base, the instructor's...

In Memory of Uncle Pat

Pat's mother, Eleanor got hers. "we regret to inform you that your son, flight engineer, Sgt...

Eddie Gurmin part 3: Prisoner of War

And evertime we moved we were in cattle trucks, you know, they got us down from East Prussia in cattle...

Tweedale's War Part 12

As a reward for my services to King and Country I later received four medals and the appropriate ribbons:...

WWII Memories in Brief

This man gave me a huge breakfast after which he put me in his own bed. I was awakened by the arrival...

Facing Three Dorniers, 13 May 1940

The Germans were a step ahead of us as they had sent a specialised unit called the 'Condor' group...

My life in the RAF. (Part 1).

The morning of the third arrived and at eleven a.m. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced on...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Nine - France 1944

I replied that I had been stationed at Vassincourt in 1939 and wanted to know if Mme Jean was still alive...