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We get rid of our bombs but still we lose height and Willie is fighting like hell to control her. Here the...
Waiting in the gliders were about 170 officers and men of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckighamshire Light...
Donald was given Northern Denmark and he made his HQ in the German camp at Aalborg... One of Donald's...
Harold Lees story part 2 – The health hazards of India....
The location was Cornwall and the Radar Station was RAF Pen Olver. The Coast Guard Station was very close...
The following interesting letter dated 11th January, 1943, telling how a young Mansfield Woodhouse man...
And so our crew above the Alps we find At 20,000 feet and flying blind With deadly ice amassing on the...
The last one to leave had the impression that Frank was then going to go back and see if he could help...
In September 1944, three Queen Mary lorries, each loaded with an aircraft engine test bench, and a Hillman...
Because the advance of the Allies in Europe was coming to a halt through lack of supplies, General...
He became a wireless operator/air gunner and was promoted to Sergeant. Bill's pilot Hank went home to...
The pilot, Eddie Robertson, managed W-Willie — the Lancaster, as best he could and they crash-landed...
The wind was howling and the rain beat down as two squadrons of Typhoon fighter bombers, fully armed,...
The passage describes the transfer of the German Surrender Team from Montgomery's HQ at Lunerberg...
These recollections are by Malcolm Ernest Stroud, talking about his late brother Peter Arthur John Stroud,...
The crew consisted of P/O Eglinton P/O Hodgson and an Aussie Ron Browne from Townsville....
We eventually arrived over Woodbridge and made contact with their control and were told to land on the...
I was based at the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit in Wembley, Middlesex and was one of the C shift...
On 16 April 1944 I was 11 years old and playing with friends outside our house in a small town called Sneek...
Ted took off in his Bristol Beaufort bomber on one particular mission in late July to intercept an Italian...
After he had made a perfect landing on a strip of ground on Phuket Island, he and three other members of...
My memories of the end of the War in Europe come before V.E. Day, in fact it was May 5th the day...
""HELLO MUM AT PRESENT MOMENT I'M IN THE U.S.O IN PIYO INDIANA AND THE U.S.NAVAL STATION BUNKER...
I was the bomb–aimer in a Halifax shot down by a German night fighter over Berlin. The Germans had...
Stan completed eight weeks of basic training or 'square-bashing' in Yorkshire - at a Butlin's...
Well, one day Ken Warren was taking off but Dickie, his fitter, didn't get off the tail in time and Ken...
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