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Lancaster Bomber Crash on Thurnby Lodge, Leicester.

Lancaster Bomber Crash on Thurnby Lodge, Leicester. Our legs came back to life, and with childish visions...

Round the World at Government Expence Chapter 5: Training with the RAF and by Boat to New Zealand via Panama Canal

Next I was sent to 11 EFTS, a Pre AFU unit at Scone, a small village near Perth in Scotland, where we...

A Mediterranean Cruise: 'Ocean of the Pacific' Attacked on Voyage from Liverpool to Egypt

The fight was raging fast and furious, with more bombers showing signs of distress, and the anti-aircraft...

The Burma Campaign-Part 2-Life in Burma

Following the success of the Admin Box battle , the 5th & 7th African Division marched up from the...

Operation Bunghole - February 1944 (Part 1)

Back at Comiso we did some more testing and set out, fully loaded to fly to Bari where I heard I was...

Making a Difference - Experiences of a Black British Serviceman

They were reluctant to accept the fact that the British black servicemen were a different race in social...

Two at One Blow

My efforts to clear the top surface of the wing, from which the majority of an aircraft's lift is...

RAF Training in Southern Africa

All AC2s then passed through ACDC Heaton Park, Manchester for shipping to training in Southern Rhodesia,...

How George Qualified for Membership of the Caterpillar Club

Unfortunately, he found one of the engines u/s. This meant that we had to clamber out of our aircraft, send...

Being a Mother and Wife during the War

I have memories of getting home from a visit to the cinema during the blackout of 1939-40, during a real...

Desert Airforce vs Rommel

And I joined a Squadron there that was formed up mainly as a Heavy bomber unit because they found out that...

A Message from 1944 RAF Typhoon Pilot Brian Teather

In May 1997 my mother and my brother John, with his son, also James Brian, went to Damme to meet Wilfried...

A RAF pilot's story

He then went to Chichester, Sussex, where he carried out convoy escorts in the English Cannel and raids...

Abroad With The Royal Air Force

We got as far as Benghazi and we then got posted to Greece, so had to come back to Alexandria and got...

My War Story Became a Film!

Donald was later to meet up with this young German girl in Czestochowa and to save her from the liberating...

It was a long time for some dates: Childhood Memories of Bishop Auckland

My mam said he was abroad and they didn't want the Germans to know where my dad was. We put my bike...

Service with 56 Hurricane Squadron during the Battle of Britain

I passed out from Cranwell in February 1940 at the tender age of 16 and three months, and was posted to 56...

A Halifax Rear-Gunner

After training, he was promoted to Flight-Sergeant and posted to Melbourne airfield in Yorkshire in August...

Sid Willis Reminiscences: RAF Electrician

He was taking his Wellington to RAF Wing near Leighton Buzzard, from there you could catch a train and be...

A Flight Mechanic's Tale: From Blackpool to Canada and Back

We were sent back to Blackpool where we were kitted out with rifle, bayonet, and survival gear, and posted...

A Global Trek in WW2: POW in the Far East

Already an enthusiastic amateur radio builder, he trained as a wireless operator/air gunner at RAF Cranwell...

"I'm Going to Help Stan!"

Lancaster N-Nan, JB607 with its crew; Pilot- Stan Ireland, Flt Eng- Billy Squires, Air Bomber- Frank Seery,...

Halifax Bomber (part 2)

After all these years, it is now April 2005, I can visualise part of the huge four engined Halifax bomber...

Christmas 1944: Putting on a Show at RAF Digri, Bengal.

Apart from my normal duties as Corporal i/c Instrument Repairers on ‘B’ Flight, 159 Squadron at...

Masirah (Petrol Tin Island)

After training in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa and Palestine and service in the Middle East theatre of...

My Lancashire War

When we were preparing to go for the second front I was posted to the Tactical Air Force at Nine Group...