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Pilot training in the wartime Royal Air Force - Part II

Here the Royal Air Force had established on the prairie an airfield for the elementary flying training of...

Loss of some of 755392 W/O Norman (Jock) Cameron's nine lives

He was to have two spectacular crashes with the same crew, all Sergeants: W. Crich, and G. Arthur Farley,...

Coffee Beans??

Fleet Arm Pilots Captain Torrence Spence R.N. L鈥� Cmdr Levers Lt Cmdr Robertson Lt Cmdr Callingham Lt...

RAF: FORSDIKE,ERIC. WWII 鈥淭HE YEARS GONE BY

No sooner had we arrived at lunchtime when the air raid sirens went and we watched the circling RAF...

Starfish

"STARFISH DECOY SECRET SAVED BRITISH CITIES Fires flickering at night in the heart of the countryside...

Lancaster Engineer/RAF Scampton/Adventure with the US airforce!

Five days after arrival at Scampton, on the 19th October, the squadron flew on its second operation when...

Hardluck Crew of V-Victor

Dawley and his crew, having survived the first critical missions, took on the swagger of the overconfident....

Wellesbourne Airmen

July llth 1943 saw the arrival of No.312 Ferry Training unit which was formed at Wellesbourne to train...

Life in Bomber Command 102

JOHN ANDERSON HURST- 1470142 JOINED THE SERVICE AT RAF CARDINGTON 15-12-41 DEMOBBED AT RAF UXBRIDGE 1-8-46...

Flying the Vickers Wellington bomber in 1941 鈥� 1942 : poems written by a former Wireless Operator / Air-Gunner (WOP/AG).

Published by the Salamander Oasis Trust and Orion Books in 鈥淧oems of the Second World War鈥�...

My RAF life

When we arrived in Bulawayo, there was only limited number of places at the elementary flying training...

Stirling to Norway Supply Chapter 2

As we lifted clear of the runway and Les selected u/c up, flaps in, engine gills closed, I set the revs and...

R.A.V. Faber, RAF Service No. 1267815

On completion, while awaiting a wireless operator's course, I was posted to RAF Bircham Newton, where I...

Sergeant Thomas Earle RAF - Killed in Action

The crew of Lancaster MkII DS789/OW 鈥淎鈥�: Pilot Officer A L Olsson RCAF, Pilot Pilot Sergeant T...

579054 A/A Oliver N Johnson Royal Airforce Aircraft Apprentice, Cranwell

Other memorable sights of aircraft I saw from my vantage point at Cranwell, were formations of American...

Part One - Test Flight Crash

In cooperation with the pilot it was our joint duty to fly the aircraft on a given course and to check all...

My First Solo

My instructor to start with was a Flight Sergeant who was browned off by being switched from flying...

Familiar Voices extract

If the six aerodromes were far apart, say one was to Imphal in the north and another to Cox's Bazaar in...

Memoirs of Flight Sergeant Frank Ludlam (1924-2004)

This much-maligned 鈥楻olls-Royce鈥� of the four-engined bombers had seen better days and, due to...

RAF Wellesbourne Mountford (Part 1)

On the 14th April 1941, No 22 Operational Training Unit was formed at Wellesbourne Mountford, being part of...

Berts Story

Over the coming months war really built up and it was usual place to see German bombers pursued by British...

Tales of Scant Respect

When I was told to report to RAF Station Blackpool I was surprised to see the address was a number in a...

India - There and Back the Hard Way

Then in January 1946, some five months after VJ-Day, the airmen of RAF Bamhrauli, in India, were preparing...

Eric Tansley 鈥� My Wartime Story

MY AIRCREW EXPERIENCES IN THE R.A.F. FROM NOVEMBER 1940 UNTIL APRIL 1946/ continued

This occurred in Woolworth's when a plump middle-aged woman put her arms around me and almost shouted...

Extract from the Life and Times of Douglas Tuckey: Chapter Two

The fundamental basis of all navigation was the 鈥榯riangle of velocities'. From our instruments we...