Whilst at the Initial Training Wing in the Tembani Hotel, Paignton, the new recruits were sent to...
David Watson Maffett born 14th November 1920, the son of David John Maffett of Farrankad-Greenwood and the...
Born just after the War I read all the usual Comics that abounded at the time and one of the stories that...
My grandfather was was an Aircraft Engine Fitter and became a Leading Aircraftman, his number was 1019591...
My husband Matthew George Killingbeck was stationed at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire with Number 10 Squadron...
The 28 Squadron in Mandalay, Yeu and Meiktila. During our stay in Meiktila, the war in Europe had just...
So it was a great experience -. My crew consisted of 7 man- officers: navigator and bomb aimer, wireless...
Just 2 weeks after Russia changed sides and fought with the Allies, Churchill sent 38 pilots and 500 ground...
After Gloucester I passed out and went to Holton in Wendover, Hertfordshire, then onto south Wales as an...
He was mainly flying Hurricane fighter planes on the mission known as the "Shetland Bus". The...
He drove me out to my hut and left me a bottle of whisky as compensation for having to work... There was...
On the night of 1st/2nd July 1941 I was flying as Front Gunner in a Wellington Bomber returning from a raid...
When looking at the lounge were were told that the table was indeed a Morrison shelter and to which two...
Born in London in 1924, Roy marlow was just fifteen when he added three years to his age and joined the RAF...
I met my wife during the War at the Blackpool Tower or the Winter Gardens - there was always dancing there...
After about 45 trips I was moved to train twin engine pilots to fly four engine aircraft. On the second day...
In 1944 our mother received a 6 page telegram, informing her to go to the local police station, where she...
I was only a child when I heard that George, who was my father's cousin, had been killed in a crash...
This was Haverigg, one of the early Navigator Training Schools, home of the deaded Blackburn Botha, the...
We flew Domini aircraft which we called , Flying Classrooms....
He was initially posted to Pembroke Dock in Wales where he worked on Sunderland Flying Boats... This...
The white Capetown Castle, the orderly queue, the bells and the whistles, the shouts of the crew, the jokes...
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