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Sequel to : Liberated by Cossacks

They endured a regime of even less food than the rest received from the Germans and as I intimated earlier,...

Lighter Moments of an RAF Mechanic

It was usual every evening for five or six vehicles to take the Italian workers home to their villages, the...

War Service Abroad as a Wireless Operator

We sailed north past Scotland and onto Canada, landed some troops at Belize then towards Africa, we were...

Brothers in Arms

Henry was four years older than John. A few days after he was due to report to Wales, two policemen knocked...

Round the world at government expense Chapter8: With the RAF in Australia and SE Asia

This meant flying via Darwin to Morotai in the Halmahera Islands and then up to Balikpapan in Eastern...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Four - Setting the Singapore Defences

There Pearce joined us and we flew in an Imperial Airways Empire flying boat via Lake Galilee, Lake...

A Child's Story

Another rented house was found at 11 Endsleigh Gardens, Upton by Chester, and I started at Hollybank...

Up The Spout

I then climbed over the side of the cockpit to see Nicol floumdering in the water but felt a bit relieved...

Memories Buried In Their Minds, For Ever and Ever.

Liverpool: Meols: Farndon- North Wales: Tripoli- Libya and Marsa Matruh- Egypt. Liverpool: Meols: Farndon-...

The Sinking of the HMT Britannia

The passengers were a mixed bunch male and female, naval officers and ratings, army officers and nurses,...

RAF 218 Sqd. — Salvage Unit — Southampton — 1940

Complete with rifle and 10 rounds, part of 218 Squadron arrived by air, in a small village named Auberive,...

They Chose Me to do this Job

He said the Directorate of Public Relations, P/R.8, Air Ministry, London with the Air Attaché, chose...

A Tribute Final

After a well earned leave he was commissioned as Pilot Officer Eric Phillips No 170712 and became an...

Round the World at Government Expense: Chapter 1

We met again at Heaton Park, Manchester where he was short of shoe laces and fly buttons, and then once...

Beating the Odds

After lining up on the markers in accordance with the Bomb Aimer's directions, instead of the usual...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Two - France 1939

I knew where the two squadrons were, I knew there was quite a lot of German reconnaissance activity over...

The Story of the Watch: Dutch Honesty, after Bombing Raid over Duisberg

However, he had lost the piece of paper with my name and address, and all he could remember was...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Five - The Far East War Starts

A Filter Room had been built, and manned, at Kallang, to receive and assess reports from the radar stations...

The Story of My Brother

His name was William Charlton Lawson and his rank when he died was Flight-Sgt. in the Royal Air Force, a...

Don't You Know There's A War On, Young Man?

At that time the village Local Defence Volunteers had a dug-out under construction in the school grounds,...

Flights of a Navigator

However, my flying was not as good and after a report by our German, I was checked by the Chief Instructor...

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 1 UK

During my wait at the A/C I got into conversation with one of the ground crew who told me he had been...

Memories of Royal Air Force B25s

Yes, its near VE Day, and I am suddenly Corporal Ray Mitchell - Radio Technician, working on those lean and...

Burma Road

From Calcutta we went to Dimapur and from there we boarded a lorry to take us to Imphal via Kohima. We were...

Memories of RAF B25s

Yes, its near VE Day, and I am suddenly Corporal Ray Mitchell - Radio Technician, working on those lean and...

My War by a Young Irish Lass

Initially, I trained for first aid and home nursing at St George's Hospital and the Royal College of...