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Airman in Spitfire

Joining the RAF in 1942,at the age of 20 years I went into Initial Training Wing Paignton, Devon to train...

But, Death Brings Hope鈥�

My sister Joan and I would take breakfast up to these boys in bed, usually five or six of them, and my...

Mystery Stradishall WAAF

My next step was to contact the Air Historical Branch at RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex, who were...

My Trip to Stalagluft III

About five minutes after getting to the police station, two fairly senior German Polizei turned up and took...

Post War Stories of WW2: Childhood Memories of RAF Cardington

Other Grey/Blue lorries transported extremely large "Gas Bottles" that the local kids always...

鈥淎ll hell let loose鈥� at RAF Station Kenley August 1940

Alighting at Whyteleafe railway station, wearing full kit and carrying our gas masks, tin hats and kitbags,...

Lucky Break

I woke two days later in hospital with a broken collar bone, two broken legs, both my knee caps having been...

The Incendiary Bomb, the Pot Plant, and the Maharaja

I was at Heston until April, and then went to work on Spitfires and Lysanders with 61OTU in Shropshire. I...

Life as an RAF Pilot: Chapter 3 Back to England

There were no two seated Hurricanes so we had to get familiar with the cockpit and procedures on the...

Les Baker's Letter Home Part 4. Journey to Ceylon.

When the Japs landed in Java, there was nothing we could do as we had very little equipment and very few...

The Reed Family

My uncle tells the story of how he came home on a very rare visit and alighted from Shildon railway station...

D-Day minus 1

On the afternoon of June 5th, 1944, four High Speed Launches from No. 43 Air Sea Rescue base, RAF Mount...

Life in Britain During the Second World War - Year 9 Project (3)

I was taught how to pack parachutes at 13 M.U. Henlow but I re-mustered and went on an aircraft fitter...

Diary Extract - Air Attack on Troop Convoy: RAF on Board the 'Franconia'

Nov 25th at 06.30hrs -Docked Gibraltar and boarded HMS Southampton having an escort of nine Destroyers, one...

Wartime Memories of a Young Farmer

An air battle was in full cry overhead and suddenly a Junkers 88 was shot down, two parachutes left the...

A Filght Mechanic's Tale

We started the aerodrome there, initially there were only Mk1 Anson planes, these were old English...

Lincoln - A Rest Year

Jack, who had not plugged in his intercom was checking his guns when Radcliffe, his mid upper gunner, came...

Around the Cape and back through the Med

Leaving Freetown, we passed the Isle of St. Helena, and after some time we arrived in Cape Town, seeing the...

Hitch-hiking WW2

Our first lift was by an RAF van which had to drop us off in the Hammersmith area because of an air...

Winged Chariots -Part 14: The Widow Maker

I arrived to Egypt for training via the Air Crew Receiving Centre, London, in April 1943; Initial Training...

Serving with the Fleet Air Arm

I never served on aircraft carriers but went to HMS Gosling at Warrington and then to Abbotsinch Naval Air...

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 5

When driving in convoy on the road to Flensburg, my flight commander was sitting beside me as he always did...

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 6

When driving in convoy on the road to Flensburg, my flight commander was sitting beside me as he always did...

A Strabane Airman Remembered

One of the survivors of 150 Squadron, Group Captain Randal, wrote to Leslie's brother, Vic., in 1991...

The Abbeyville Kid

Abbeville is a small town lying some thirty miles inside France on the North side of the River Somme, a...

Memories of Air Crashes in Lincolnshire

They drew the blackout curtains and we saw that a Hampden bomber had crashed into St Matthias church...