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Peter Dawbarn -Part 7: Dawbarn meets the Germans

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The Buried Sandbag

The coffin only contained sandbags to give it weight. Indeed, the sandbags were still there when the coffin...

Lancaster Bombers

I was a nvigator in the Lancaster Bombers. Lots of the places were wired in Bedford up for the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s...

A Pilot's Memories

I came from Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, which was close to lots of airbases. We had a largish garden...

The day we saved Jonny Johnson

Dad, was an RAF member attached to the RCAF 39 Recce Wing in a ground control role and told the following...

Peter Page - A Pilot Officer's Heroic Death

THE STORY OF PILOT OFFICER PETER PAGE Peter Page came from Gilmorton and was at Lutterworth Grammar School...

A Narrow Escape

Airforce HQ was located near Holborn Tube Station and I can remember many nights when I joined scores of...

My father's war service

His first operational squadron as a Sergeant Wirelss operator/Air Gunner was No.103 Squadron at Elsham...

9 SQN RAF

On completion of operational training at Lossiemouth, Scotland, he was posted to 9 Sqn RAF Honningtion in...

Death of a Dakota

I went to the Aircrew Receiving Centre in St John's Wood in London... It swung round looking for a safe...

Convoys

Part of the convoy went to North Africa — we went all the way round, into Free Town, Cape Town...

Just a Swig of Whisky-Part 1

One day in 1944 a call of nature found me sitting in the makeshift toilet on a bamboo cane with a trough...

From a Solicitor to a Soldier: From Rhyl to Malta

I met my second wife in Dumfries, where I was instructing Canadian officers coming over into operations....

The First Time I Met the American Airforce

After that I was sent to Burmah with 132 RSU where we used to repair damaged aircraft, or had been lost in...

Young Evacuees: From London and Banbury

On 13 September 1940, the day Buckingham Palace was bombed, my sister and I were evacuated from Brockley,...

Is There A War On?

We moved to be with his parents in the almshouses in Sutton Cheney, a small village in Leicestershire... It...

From Birth to Death

Laurie's sister Trixie won a scholarship to Harvey's Grammmar school in Folkestone and his father...

My War

Although its 65 years ago I still remember the telegram boy stopping me in the street and asking where to...

"The Air War": Memories of Flying Officer Graham Skellam

Graham Skellam was trained in 1943 in South Africa on Tiger Moths at No. 6 Elementary Flying School,...

The Wartime Gen

Peter Cottingham wanted to share this story to illustrate the sort of things that just became the norm...

Love Letters From a Flight Leiutenant

He trained at Falcon Field in Phoenix, Arizona in 1942 and I now live in Tucson, Arizona... He sailed to...

Survival in a Dinghy

We were on what was known as a ‘slug patrol’ in the Bay of Biscay, which involved laying land...

Twists of Fate at Kenley

I was a Boy Scout in Kenley during the War, and my father Edgar Delia was Scoutmaster, with my mother...

Uncle Jim Part 5

They were the crew of Lancaster ED 473 which took off from RAF Mildenhall at 00.18 hrs on 8th May 1944 on...

Pupil Pilots Under Advanced Training

As a team, we maintained Miles Master aircraft for the use of pupils and instructors for the purpose of...

My Lost Uncle

When my father joined the navy to fight in the war,my mother and I went to Penrith in Cumberland to live...