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Fleeing in the dark

Donnet himself saw action in the attack on the German battlecruisers 'Gneisenau' and...

Peter Senhenn's story

Crossed the Atlantic to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth to Halifax, Nova Scotia and was posted to RAF...

Tour of Duty in the WAAFs

We used to have to go and put the magazines into the cameras in the Catalinas and Sunderlands... But we had...

A Story with a Happy Ending.

After A.C.R.C initiation at Weston-Super-Mare, a wireless course at Yatesbury, gunnery school at Manby, a...

J.C.Dodman Crew

The J C Dodman crew joined together at March Field in Riverside, California in September for crew training....

The Defence of the Realm, 1939-1945

After a couple of months the Battalion was sent to Essex to guard the airfields, our company was stationed...

Villeneuve St Georges, 35 Squadron, Pathfinders: My Last Operation

Below is an account of the last flight of Lancaster ND846-TL-J for Johnnie, as told to me by my uncle,...

I Was Singing in the Choir

I then went to Port Alfred flying school and then I was posted back to Capetown. My wife was stationed at...

John Martin's Entry As Flight Engineer

My mate and I were put on 鈥淛inkers鈥�, and brought in front of the Wing Commander... It was Wing...

Harry Tenny. F/Sgt. R.A.F.

We were given a bed and introduced to the senior man who was French, who informed us we were now the...

An NCO鈥檚 war in the RAF

In Canada I was based at Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, a pilot training base for the Canadian and the Royal Air...

All for 50 Rupees a Month!!!

The C.O, Wing Commander "Bill" Burberry said, "come with me Sumption" so, Sumption duly...

My War, by Hilda Aram

Ivan and his crew were all awarded medals - Ivan got the D.F.C. - and we were all very proud of him....

F.S. Harry Tenny R.A.F

We slept in three tier wooden bunks with a straw mattress on about fifteen bed boards about two feet long...

Ditched in the Sea: 192 Squadron, Southern Bay of Biscay

He realised he would have to crash land on the sea and issued the standard order: 'DINGHY, DINGHY,...

Letters home to mum and dad: Training at RAF Skegness

We, our billet of 14, were just marching to tea when we came out of a turning just behind a column of...

Joining the RAF in India

The first landfall we had was Sierra Leone on West Africa. We couldn't use the Suez canal, because the...

Morse Operator to Air-Gunner and Wireless Operator: A Game of Chance

Having also agreed to be an air-gunner, I was posted to Linton-on- Ouse on Whitley Bombers on Bomber...

Billy Barker's War

A lot of Japanese were around in Hong Kong and the little Chinese kids would keep pointing them out to us...

Winston's Walk

Winston Churchill, I thought it surely must be a stand in, there appeared to be no security whatsoever,...

Lancaster Bombers and Operation Dodge by Richard Gration

The pick-up points in Italy were Bari on the South east coast towards the bottom of the country and the...

Siege of Malta

After several days at sea, and without being permitted "topside", my father was beginning to...

OPERATIONS - 1944

After dropping their bombs, crews of 900 RAF Lancaster and Halifax aircraft saw hundreds of American...

How I Found Elizabeth

He was also a fully fledged Pilot.At the time, we were in an airman's cottage close to the...

A Lucky Escape

The other crewmembers were Flying Officer Ritchie, Flying Officer Faulks and Sergeant Hudson-Ball were the...

A Close Shave

The farm was about half a mile south of the main runway of the Bourn airfield a base for Mosquito bombers...