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A Story About James Roe as Told by his Wife June Roe.

This is story about my husband - James Ramsay Roe. And Chubb asked him if he remembered about a Librartor...

Getting Lost and Finding Drainpipes

Via airfields at Ouston, North East, South Cerney, Glos, and Catterick, Yorkshire, I was moved to Torquay...

Bomber Crew Training - Letters Home

My uncle, Charles Davies, joined the RAF in 1941 as an 18 year old from Liverpool, for pilot training....

A Pilot with 58 Squadron

My mother told me how, during the Battle of Britain, in the summer of 1940, when the skies seemed to be...

My First Experience of Evacuation

We stayed there until November 1940, and then moved to Johannesburg, which is about 1,000 from Cape Town. I...

A Mix of Teaching, Spitfires and Gliders

I emerged from the nstructors course brimming with knowledeg and enthusiasm , Posted To Insworth Gloucester...

Spitfires for Russia

I joined Station Flight RAF Northolt and here I worked on a number of planes; Spitfires, Airspeed Oxfords...

Mosquito to Sweden

George met me outside the ops room, "it's all right Robby we are going to Sweden". "What,...

Getting Lost

I was aged 22, and was flying Hamdens with 49th Squadron from Scampton. I was temporarily in charge of a...

The Crash

In fact it was the second crash I'd witnessed, the first being a few years before, on that same...

A Wonderful Team - No 92 Squadron and the Battle of Britain

By Mr J Wolfendale, who was ground crew man with Spitfires at Biggin Hill, a bone of contention for...

Night Fighter Radar

We had a better radar, we had a better aircraft and instead of freezing the in the Blenheims we were quite...

Fred's Journey, Part 4: Leaving the POW camp in Japan

However I managed to take a pair of Wies binoculars home, which my dad just gave to his old mate, a bookie!...

Serving with the R.A.F. in India 1944 — 1946 by Dr W.D. Cockbain

When Japan was made to surrender, the R.A.F. asked for suitable people to take a teacher's training...

Opperation Exodus

In fact it turned out to be our last 'op'. In Eupore, whilst hanging about in the crew room, the...

Hub Deep

The four of us airmen were sitting together in a hut on the edge of the perimeter track.We had brought in a...

Further Chronicles of a Charmed Life

The Blenheim aircraft of 21 Squadron at Watton were deployed on warship reconnaissance and bombing of the...

51 Squadron Raid

Twenty-four Halifax bombers were to join with others from bases throughout England, making a total of 240...

Life In The RAF

Posted to a bomber squadron in Lincolnshire, I qualified as a Bomb Aimer... Following 30 operations we were...

Tea and Rock Cake at Canteen

Not being able to get off the camp, due to there being no transport, except one little bus on Saturday...

Borland's World War II Part 3

When he got to Rothesay my sister was in bed with chicken pox. Apparently a German bomber was being chased...

Sydney in Egypt

When I left I did not go to an o.t.u in the U.K. I was sent over seas to Egypt to do...

Northumberland RAF Memories

Three of my colleagues led by Lance Bombardier Bob Furness, from Gosforth ran up to meet the crew and they...

A Likely Story: Stolen Leave from the RAF

A LIKELY STORY by Geoff Kebby I found a quiet bench near a bush and began quickly to remove my trousers...

Airfields and Americans

My name is Les Willis, now aged 75, so any remembrances are tarnished by the passing of 60 years since the...

J A Martin DFC - 700 Bombers Attack Peenemunde

We were often briefed to bomb Peeneműnde, that was where the Germans were making the V2 rockets,...