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Eric, Service no 1392973: A Modest Hero of Bomber Command - and POW

I feel bound to honour the memory of this man, and all his comrades in arms in bomber command whose memory...

Ground Crew also Served

This was to be an Australian squadron until the concern of the Japanese moving down from New Guinea to...

Stories from Somerset

Part of Mr. Morley's job in the RAF was to guide the aircraft into Gatwick airportwhen night flying......

John Martin's Part in the Raid on Hamburg

We flew down the River Elbe and bombed Hamburg... The third night that Hamburg was bombed that week, was...

Ronald Edgar Remfry at Chedburgh and Fairford, 1943 to D day

From Chedburgh the squadron was posted to a new aerodrome at Leicester East, at a place called Oadby, on...

Frothy Freddy

I went from there with 1651 to Stradishall, then back to Waterbeach, then West Wratting. Then to another...

My experiences

I went to Morecambe for training as a Wireless Air Gunner. We crashed on the beach and were actually saved...

First Operational Flights

Seven crews from 58 Squadron and three from 51 Squadron, foregathered in Station Headquarter,...

JUST ME AND MY FAMILY: With the RAF in Egypt

I met my eldest brother Norman , now a Wing Commander and my third brother Claude ,an SIB Sargeant in...

A busy November night in 1944

It was early in November 1944 when My RCAF crewtook off on a bombing raid with our Halifax 111 and several...

Three Ex-Servicemen Reminisce

He was to take it to Brize Norton into RAF service and was being towed by a Sterling bomber... It grew dark...

Letters home from an R.A.F. Officer - 1

About every other weekend we spend the weekend at either Palm Beach or Miami, or lease at one or other of...

Letters home to mum and dad: From RAF Skegness

We reached Skegness at 2pm and shouldering our kitbags, we marched about 2 miles to our various billets,...

A Close Encounter: 158 SQN RAF Lisset Halifax MKIII "F" (Friday 13th) Pilot F/LT N.G.Gordon.RCAF

The Skipper chose to use a short wave radio to contact the airfield at Blackbush, but as a shock to us, all...

Winged Chariots -Part 6: Flak, Flying boots and broom handles

Brothers Tom, Norman and Walter Edwards all served as aircrew, Tom as an air gunner, Norman as a Spitfire...

RAF Beachy Head

In 1943 during my time at RAF Beachy Head I was billeted in a civilian guesthouse called "Beachy...

Training the RAF Behind the Front Line

The following morning we arrived at a port which I subsequently discovered was Liverpool and we boarded a...

Night Fighters

Just prior to going away from the squadron I was flying in a Boer fighter one night, and we got involved...

A Different Spitfire

PRU Spitfires were provided with vertically fitted automatic units with up to 36鈥� lenses, which were...

The Sailor That Never Went to Sea

Posted to RAF Warboys in Cambridgeshire where they trained some of the 鈥楶athfinders鈥� I worked...

鈥極ur Heroes鈥�

Missions from Woodhall Spa Tracers coming through the thatch I didn't quite get the chop Little humour...

My Mother the War Worker

One morning as they slowed for the Halt a returning Bomber badly shot up over Germany was trying to make...

WW2 Photo Reconaissance

He was posted to be Navigator on twin Rolls Royce Merlin engined De Havilland Mosquito Aircraft with a crew...

Tales from the Bilges: As Seen from Coastal Command Flying Boat, Lough Ern

Once upon a time long, long ago, there was I sitting in the port blister of Catalina MN-M, 600 miles...

After VJ day for the RAF in India

You got to Durban from Cape Town... So we left Cape Town, thru the Red Sea....

Wellington bomber crashlands in Bengal

After crash landing in the waterlogged jungles of Bengal, the crew of a Wellington bomber braved the...