Stories categorised in 'Royal Air Force'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
1942, 159 RAF personnel and 28 members of No 4 Company RAOC, including my father Sergeant G H Jackson,...
In early April 1945 I joined up with 601 County of London Squadron, which had already been at Bellaria in...
Wireless Operator: Sgt L C Bolke, RAF Manchester, Age 22. To date, we had bombed various targets in the...
By this time I had destroyed a ME 109 on 25 July and destroyed another on 5 August, but now it was...
Now in Java each little village has its own set of drums so they can pass messages to each other to tell...
On the 3rd September 1939, the day that war was declared, I had just finished the air gunnery course, and...
To Milan and back in a Mark I Halifax For our first operational sortie we were given a very elderly...
IFF was a system that enabled radar stations to distinguish between incoming German and British aircraft....
Whilst the Germans occupied his mothers homeland Henry found himself back across the Atlantic. Unlike...
This made the mission even more dangerous, as the R.A.F. would quite likely suffer an attack in an aircraft...
In May Douglas was part of a bombing expedition to Maastricht to halt the German advance there and they...
First to Stalag Luft VI, near Heydekrug, in the Baltic states, then as the Russians advanced so they were...
On 22nd June 1940, as the pilot of a Hudson aircraft of Coastal Command, I was escorting one of our naval...
I'd already learnt German and French at school 鈥 at Dusseldorf I got a big compliment from a...
In August 1946 Stan Wrighton, myself and two others on a forty-eight-hour pass visited the Mohne Dam, and...
After a short time spent at various stations in England we were 鈥渃rewed 鈥 up鈥 at Hixon,...
Uncle Tommy, Sergeant Alfred William Swinburne 'Tommy' THOMAS 562935 born in Plymouth, joined the...
Mr William "Billy" Bates of Dawley, Shropshire , attended No 5 Course of 83 O.T.U. from October...
L/Br Beckett from the searchlight site had joined Sgt Kendall and me now and going deeper into the...
The army was a few miles in land but all credit to those who, a few hours before, had lifted the mines...
Prologue This story takes place on the night of 14/15 October 1941, on board a Wellington 5571 with a crew...
Afloat in a rubber dinghy for 17hrs on a stormy sea was the thrilling but unpleasant experience of Flying...
Joe rummaged around the crumpled fuselage, found two tins of tomato soup, stuffed one in his bomber jacket...
The wireless operator put the IFF on to Stud 3 and sent out an SOS and a message to the effect that...
Selected along with 81 Squadron to collect Spitfire MkV111s from Cairo West airport, Len's third c/o...
The first aircraft that I did my Radio training in was a DH Dominieand then the Percival Proctor and Avro...
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