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Z.S Report (9)

ZS Hudson's were the only aircraft to attempt night landings at North Front a performance that proved...

Training To Be A Flight Engineer Part Two

War time flight in a Tiger Moth

The station had an unofficial dance band which played at Metheringham and other stations, and so were...

Tragic Drowning at RAF Valley 1941 - Chapter 1

By 1939 the threat of war with Germany had become real, and on 24th August Leslie was called up to join 615...

All Lads Together (part 1): Call up and training

Completion of gunnery, aircraft recognition, hydraulics, morse, turrets and how the RAF is run, sees us en...

Bombing Missions over Germany in 1944-45 by Pat Dwyer and Leslie Landells

Pilot: Les Landells, Distington, Cumbria Navigator: Albert ‘Bud’ Storey, Harrington, Cumbria...

Stirling and Arnham chapter 1

Just after Simmo left the Stirling, there was a small explosion, the port wing broke away and the fuselage,...

BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: A New Assignment

As well as the normal duties, mail runs, ~ delivering personnel to forward positions, supply dropping and...

3 Group, 195 Squadron, Wratting Common, my Uncle "Dickie" Bird Lancaster Pilot

From what I understand, after being trained in Canada, Toby was in 115 Squadron for a short time then they...

Lucky Me! (Part Two)

The remaining aircraft of 79 Squadron got back to Biggin on the 22nd. Whilst at Chester I started to go out...

A Bomber pilot's experiences

Les and I were posted to Syerston, by now the home of 5LFS. Needless to say we were delighted to continue...

Comet Line Escape

Now that operation training was finished we were moved to another Station to gain experience in flying...

Z.S Report (5)

The British high command were fully aware of the changes that had been made and the understanding was that...

FITTER ON 'J' FOR JOHNNIE (2)

The native workers were rather keen on whipping up any loose articles inside the aeroplane. Just as I had...

Escapers Escapade Part two

The Adjutant of 112 Sqdn. had procured a boat to sail to Crete but it had first to be cleared of petrol...

Night Fighting : Five hours of a navigator's life.

Henry George A'Court - Rough History

Second World War

Not only RAF. but also Naval Officer Test Pilots. In 1990 I was asked by Air Commodore Montague BSC WRAF to...

Fitter on J for Johnnie (part 1)

I plugged in the inter-communication wire and called up "Hello Captain, Hello Captain". On getting...

Part Two - Under cover in WW2

One of the odd jobs was they had brought up from Changi Goal in Singapore a Japanese Lieutenant Commander...

Life on a Flying Boat

From the quayside could be seen a row of Sunderland flying boats moored to buoys across the water at...

CONNIE ( GORDON CONWAY) BALES OUT- MORE 136 WOODPECKER SQUADRON ADVENTURES!

Connie flew Alfie Bayne's Hurricane ‘J’ to the grass strip on the Calcutta Maidan south of...

The Grimaldi Family Story

I was called up into the RAF in May, and posted to Upper Heyford, which was a Bomber Operational Training...

THE RAF AND OUR WAR PART 2

I really took to the "Beau", despite the fact that many pilots said it swung like a bitch on...

A Flying Ambassador From Fiji

I was flying a dawn armed reconnaissance patrol well out over the Salonika Plain in Greece searching for...

Crash Landing

Rob s interest has focused on the Sterling Aircraft that crashed into the sea in Denmark. Returning to...