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Back to Training

To any stranger its offical title is the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate... At this point in my R.A.F...

Bomb trouble! In a Sunderland Flying Boat over Sierra Leone

Being an electrician can be a demanding job at the best of times, being an electrician on a sunderland...

J A Martin DFC - Terrible Confusion of a Pilot Lost at Dumdum

During our flights to the Far East we flew into Dumdum and we ‘slipped crews’... Ace Anning who...

Uncle Jim Part 3: RAF Service

The last entry seems strange in view of Jim's being assigned to an Air Crew the following year....

Panic Over Snowden part 3

He was a very successful Forensic Scientist, becoming, amongst other things, the Director of the Newcastle...

Uncle Jim Part 4: RAF Service with 15 Squadron

Jim served as a flight engineer in 15 Squadron, Bomber Command... Towards the end of the war, it flew...

Squadron Mascots

After much adulation he was bored to tears and when asked if the squadron had a mascot he described how...

Getting Back from Leipzig

I was flying as a Flight Engineer with my first crew and returning from a Pathfinder trip to Leipzig, my...

90 squadron R.A.F

I am Reg Ware and I joined the RAF in 1942 volunteering for aircrew.After a few weeks at the reception...

J A Martin DFC - UK to Singapore Post-War

The next time I encountered Sergeant Barker was at Habbaniya in the Middle East when I was attched to...

My Service History - from Sand Fly Fever to Mount Vesuvius

I served in the United Kingdom, Freetown, South Africa, Egypt, across North Africa and the Western Desert...

In the RAF in Aldergrove

Richie Edwards from Prestatyn, now living in Rhyl tells us of his memories in the RAF in Northern Ireland....

Diary of My Service in the RAF by Charles Neill

1945 Posted to 209 Squadron to join Sunderland Squadron who were converting from Catalinas, via Kisuma to...

J A Martin DFC - Resourceful Luftwaffe

It must have been some type of pyrotechnic which after being fired into the air, reached the height we were...

Christmas in the Ardennes 1944

It was during this time that the German army managed to break through Allied lines in the Ardennes. Years...

RAF Bomb Armourer Harold Hilton

Harold Hilton from Farnworth was born in 1915 and served in the Second World War from 1939-1945. An...

Return to St Athan.

This was to create from raw mechanics and fitters, air-crew capable of becoming the seventh member of a...

Hartlepools RAF Hero's

Unfortunately, as the aircraft arrived at the base, the Observer was unable to land and Phillip's...

Glider Rehearsals for D-Day in Thruxton

When they were near the airfield on the way back, the glider would release the rope, as the rope's...

Fifteen Bouts of Malaria - a Fortunate War

During this time I became fluent in Urdu — and suffer 15 bouts of Malaria. It was brought home to me...

I Remember: A Torpedo at Dunkirk 1940

My father never went into detail about the war, but one thing he often told was about when he was on the...

Boat Trip to Egypt: Via Canada, Far East and Africa

The boat left Northern Scotland in March 1942 via Canada, to avoid the German U-boats, part of the largest...

Billeted Servicemen

So we saw out the war at our house, but when Dad died of leukaemia in 1941, it was just Mum and...

Unexploded Bomb

On the twelfth of February 1942,, as an RAF aircrew trainee cadet, my companions and I were on a training...

Getting Round the Censor!

In September 1944, Dad landed at Arromanches - the "Mulberry" Harbour, as part of an A.M.E.S. unit,...

Smoke In Their Eyes

The chief flying instructor - called me into his office and reported that my bomb had gone through the roof...