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Peter Dawbarn -Part 1: Other Exploits

Peter Dawbarn began his training in February 1939 in Perth in Scotland; flying Tiger Moths. Following a...

Childhood Memories of Coggeshall at War

I started school and went to Woodlands in Church Street which is now offices, and during the first year,...

LAC Eddie Ingall RAF

From here I chauffeured many high ranking government and military officials in and around London using...

The Dam Buster Pilots (concluded)

One of them was Les Knight - he crashed, he was the one who blew up the Eder Dam, and Les Knight's...

Peter Dawbarn -Part 3: A Close Encounter with the Equine Kind

We flew Hurricanes in 17 Squadron; all Hurricanes. Dawbarn meets the Germans Combat 'It's like...

A Trip Back in Time.

There I hoped to meet Louis Moreau the son of a farmer that had assisted our escape from France during...

The Land Army Girl and the Airman

I also had three bridesmaids, Betty Ball, Edna Palmer and Frieda Inwood, and my brother Jeffrey Palmer was...

Part 5 RAF Pilot Training - Geoff Wright

Posted to Aircrew Despatch Centre, Heaton Park, Manchester. 30.11.45 Posted to RAF Station at Dunholme...

Being Shot Down, and part of the Great Escape

I was an officer pilot in a fighter squadron during the Second World War, first of all in France when we...

Searches For Arthur-Desmond G Pastore.

Three brothers had been called up, one was in the Cheshire Yeomanry, one was in the Yorkshire Infantry and...

POW Memories

I trained as a pilot at Wellesbourne on Tiger Moths then I went to Canada to a training aerodrome at...

Memories of Flight Sergeant Harry Tenny: Part 1

Mr Boocock: D-Day Had Arrived

Our 40 Typhoon bombers were supporting our drive for the Arnhem bridge and the Germans knew this. Very...

Winged Chariots -Part 2: How not to parachute

Bob Pyett and his fellow crew members soon realised while en route for a second raid on Chemnitz —...

Living Near an Airbase

The state some of these aircraft flying over our house left one in wonderment as to how the pilots were...

A cold and a hot war-Part One

A single German aircraft dropped a stick of bombs on the camp. One day, in 1941, our aircraft was taxi-ing...

An RAF Sgt Serving with the Canadian Air Force

To replace the heavy losses, Royal Air Force personnel were posted to Canadian Squadrons to make up the...

Winged Chariots -Part 3: A mixed blessing

Back in Britain, Campbell went to an Advanced Flying Training Unit at Peterborough, then to Montrose on a...

I Survived a Rough Crossing

I was an 18 year old Motor Transport Mechanic based at RAF West Kirkby, near Liverpool. We met other RAF...

From Sea to Air

I then joined the RAF as aircrew and did my ITW at Aberswyth, Grading School at Coventry flying Tiger...

A Matter of Timing

Michael McLoughlin Dowding was born in Highbury, London N5 on 30th July 1924. Selected as a Pathfinder he...

The War Diaries of 1232581 - L.A.C. Jack Lucas R.A.F.V.R.(PART-FOUR)

Our advance party, which had gone on to Capadichino, Naples airport, returned and are off again to Bari on...

My Dad's War: Posted to Rhodesia

Dad was a machinist at the JAP engine factory until the depression and after nine months unemployment...

Life with the RAF in India

You could have quite often seen a snake on the top of your mosquito net... Malaria carriers, the mosquito....

The Home Coming Crash: Hampden Crash near Bridgewater

I can remember one awful night when I was about 18 years old (1941) when i was living with my parents the...

SIX YEAR OLD BOY MEETS HIS PILOT

Tom recalled his priority training as a RAF pilot in "Pathfinders". Enemy bombs had been...