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Lockwoods Folly

Pilot Lockwood was a South African in the RAF and flying a liberator loaded with Depth Charges and...

Guy Gibson Gets Lost!

Noah Grant was a member of the royal observers core during the war. his job was to man the observation...

Guardian Angel

It's based in Kings Heath in Birmingham. His officer made him take the little boy back to the camp...

January 1st 1945: RAF 83 Group HQ Eindhoven

Eric Sykes and I were Wireless Operators and Bill Fraser was our Codes and Cyphers officer who used to...

Ernest Potts, a Bristol Beaufighter navigator escapes from Italy by Kathryn Waterhouse

Ernest Potts, a Bristol Beaufighter navigator escapes from Italy by Kathryn Waterhouse. He trained as a...

Friday 13th Unlucky for Some

At that time Billy Bryant,one of the players for Manchester football team said as long as I was stationed...

Natural Mug Cleaner - Urine!

John Wilson had been a POW at Stalag Luft 6 and in the Last Escape(1945) westwards at the end of the war...

J A Martin DFC - Engine loss at Feltwell

Paddy called up the Controller and reported having lost his port outer... Paddy came back on the radio and...

Con."3 Friends one survivor"

He went training for Air-Crew duties, to South Africa,Johanusberg, & East London, returning to he UK...

May 1st 1942

It was a solemn but proud moment as not only our own Wellington bombers, but also aircraft from every other...

Celebrity Spotting During The War

Miller from Northanpton, Jimmy Connor, a Scottish football international and Halford from Spurs we played a...

Life in World War II

My Great Uncle Bill's first experience of the Second World War was living in London during the blitz......

Frederick Oldfields Story

His first night there he we went into brussels to explore and found thsi small cafe, called cafe figero......

J A Martin DFC - Premature exploding mines

I met another chap there he was Paddy Mailey, from Bangor, he was also a Flight Engineer... Paddy had just...

My Grandad's war: In the RAF

My grandad was a navigator on a Lancaster bomber which flew many bombing raids over Germany during the war....

Why Aren't We Up There?

Nacton aerodrome was a small grass airfield and was home to target towing aicraft only.The pilots were what...

Escape from Luckenwalde

On the night of 6th August 1941 I was shot down homeward bound by a night fighter at Heeze, Holland as...

My Memories By Steve Kitching

I Went from Blackpool to Lynton-on-Ouse and from there to India in 1941... I was also stationed at Dum Dum...

No Body to bury

Albert lived on Tank Street at Riddings in Derbyshire with his mum and dad, Sarah and Fred Hibbert... The...

My War Effort

One night in 1944 I was in Leigh light Wellington bomber engaged in stopping u-boats sinking shipping...

Martin McNulty

Martin was wearing a selection of medals including a defence medal, police good service medal and the...

RAF Reconnaissance Photographers

Henry Raeburn DOBSON was a Scottish society portrait painter, who, in preparation of D-Day, flew with...

What Happened to the Reaminder of the Flight?

As I had an ear damaged in training and the inspecting doctor of the army was an ear, nose, throat...

Peter Dawbarn - Part 6: Combat

Dawbarn meets the Germans 'It's like riding a horse' Flippin' Heinkel 111 Good Idea, Bad...

Bombers ready to go explode in accident

At the airfield where he was working a squadron of Wellington Bombers were fuelled up and full of bombs,...

Learning to Shoot

I was stationed at Ballyhalbert in Northern ireland, 12 miles from the border, working as an operations...