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A Belgian officer in service with the RAF.icon for Story with photo

He was mobilised to resist any German attack.When the Germans finally attacked Belgium his regiment was...

Life as a Wartime RAF Photographer

On this trip in and out, often we travelled in a Vickers Valencia plane, a Vickers Valencia plane was a...

Repairing Aircraft Engines in India

John Jackson — Repairing Aircraft Engines in India. Hitler wanted to come down through Egypt via...

My Wartime Memories 1939-1948icon for Story with photo

My Father who grew fruit and vegetables and sold them to his customers in the Chapel area of Southampton, I...

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My Parents war

Bet and Chalks made a date to meet a few days later and said goodnight in Chichester town as Chalky had a...

Wireless Operator Training

On completion of the course I was transferred to Madley in Herefordshire where I did my flying course and I...

Missing believed Killed

Then, when I had reached the bottom of the stairs, there would be Lyn with perhaps a bunch of snowdrops or...

Leading Air Craftsman Alan Chapman 1737663

Five days after VE day I flew Melbourne to Germany, taking in the demolition work which had been done to...

Airborne: Memories of an RAF Navigator/Radio Operator

We had been airborne at extremely low level over the North Sea for 1.5-2 hours with the pigeon in a...

Child in a small village during the war years

Our village, besides having a main railway line to the south running through it, was surrounded by RAF...

The Calm Before the Storm

Imagine also a fleet of ships consisting of Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and an Aircraft Carrier, all...

Operation Starfish - Baddesley Common Decoy Site Hampshire

Operation Starfish — Baddesley Common Decoy Site and others in Hampshire and further afield and the...

Experiences As A Japanese Prisoner-of-War 1941 - 1945

The Japanese forces captured Singapore during early 1942, and our ship was re-directed to Java, in the...

Through the Eyes of a Child: Biggin Hill, Radar and WW2 Food

The front door was blown off and shot up the hallway, the ceilings came down and the windows blown in....

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 2

During my tour of duty at Shoreham airfield I did get detailed for gun post duty once or twice. Together...

My War as an Air Gunner by Fred Stead

My story takes place in 1944 when I was flying with a special duty squadron supplying resistance groups all...

Winged Chariots -Part 10: A Close Shave

Then there was the first daylight operation, flying in Vics of three to attack the German military academy...

What's in a Name?

She had one sadness however, there had been one young brother, George Edgar,, an air-gunner in a Lancaster...

RAF Bomber Navigator

I remember that he went out one night over Germany in '45, when his bomber, a Lancaster, received a...

SHOT DOWN OVER AACHEN

He was a bomb aimer in a halifax bomber and on the night of 24th may 1944 he was shot down over...

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 3

Flying bombs were now being targeted against London, but I do not think anyone if the squadron had been...

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles (Bill) Pickering

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles Pickering. Later,I was part of the 14th Army which was to launch...

A Cooks Tour

Two elderly Singhalese gentlemen advertising the Island's best known product stood on the station...

A Mosquito Bombing Raidicon for Story with photo

After qualifying he served as a flying instructor on the Bristol Blenheim aircraft, later converting to the...

My Uncle Ted

Given that their were 5 graves in Sage, including my Uncle, all supposedly from 110 Squadron, there had to...

RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner Egypt (5) - Shalufa and 2nd Crewicon for Story with photo

Geoffrey Simpson, Jackie Horrocks Bernard Myers and Tom Smith. One of the interesting incidents with this...

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