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Derrick & Sunderland T9040

Derrick and SUNDERLAND — T9040 On the 18 of February 1942 a Short Sunderland flying boat of 95...

608 SQN PROFILE PART ONE

Sgt. Symons, S.A. RAFVR Sgt. Wright, W.P. RAF Sgt. White, W. RAFVR Took off in a battle flight with two...

Vincent Boughton's Charmed War

Soon I was posted to RAF Leuchars in Scotland to join 233 Squadron, D flight, working on ‘short...

Training to Be A Flight Engineer

Stirling to Norway Supply Chapter 3

Crews very seldom talked about trips unless they were easy ones, but when the Groupies crew returned...

LIFE AS AN AERO ENGINE MECHANIC

This arrived just before Christmas and directed me to Stradishall, Suffolk, where I joined 214 Federal...

SQN. LDR. GORDON CONWAY ( CONNIE) C.O. 155 FIGHTER SQUADRON IN BURMA 1945

The following morning after the last leg of a further 2 and a quarter hours Connie landed at Kallang...

PILOT OFFICER GORDON CONWAY ( CONNIE) JOINS THE WOODPECKERS - 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON

WING COMMANDER GORDON CONWAY DFC - 136 SQUADRON - THE WOODPECKERS My father was Wing Commander Gordon...

608 SQN PROFILE PART TWO

By September 19th 1939, the squadron was available for anti-submarine patrol from 0600 hours to 1600 hours...

Dad's war story by Linda Rachetto

He didn't know it yet, but he would be in the European Theatre of Operations, part of Lt. Paul...

Escaping death three times — but no time for medals.

When I joined the R.A.F. in Bolton in 1940, I palled up with Tom Bell, also from Bolton and we were posted...

From 1944

The other two aircraft proceeded on the operation but after crossing the Chindwin River, near Homalin, on...

Extract from The Life and Times of Douglas Tuckey

, The only saving grace for my three weeks there was clay pigeon shooting and 'night life', but...

What happened to Les' Bomber Crew after the War Part One by Leslie Landells

For as Geoff mentions in his poem to our crew, Pat supported him so much after he escaped and returned from...

Haugesund

Go North-East up the Skagerrak well away from land, then turn south-westerly into the Kattegat and come in...

The Life and Times of an Essex Chippie

In a matter of days thousands of RAF personnel arrived on the station and the Yanks left, soon to be...

The Last Flight of Lancaster DV189 BQ-T2

Dick very kindly volunteered to help locate where my aircraft had crashed in Germany and after very...

All Lads Together (part 2): Forming a new Squadron

Four of us were picked up by RAF police and charged with wearing non-issue clothing - socks, gloves,...

Z.S Report (7)

His Hudson had failed to become airborne and had crashed into some airman's dormitory huts at the end...

Airborne Cigar: A Young Wireless Operator's Story - and a Lifelong Loss

Z.S Report (6)

An Italian merchant ship she had become marooned in this Spanish port since Italy had entered the war with...

A Bedfordshire Bomb Aimer - Part One

They would have all become familiar with the more complex equipment of the Avro Lancaster four engine...

Trumpetting my Way through the War

St Eval had a RAF band, mainly ex-professionals like a trumpet, 3 saxes, piano and perhaps other. During my...

JIM PORTWOOD'S STORY (Part One)

I went to East London for the basic classroom stuff and then we went on to Heath Park; about 10,000 of us...

Audrey's War Part Two - 'Audrey Finds Her Wings!'

So I was back on another train heading south and again getting off at another small railway station - this...

Shooting Starts

Suffolk was to shoot off one of her Walrus amphibians to spot for the gunfire, and if there was any...