After completing wireless operator and general training at Compton Basset RAF station in Wiltshire, I...
I was nineteen and waiting to join the R.A.F. as aircrew, as had become the custom between us, I was on my...
THE WOODPECKERS 鈥 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON 鈥 1942 Consolidating at Alipore, after the final retreat...
Our units progressed through France, Belgium, Holland and into Germany laying airstrips and repairing bomb...
Paul joined Flight Sergeant Adamowicz's crew as Navigator whilst I was with Colonel Werakso. On...
It was not unitl after the war was over that we gradually learned of the massive losses incurred by...
He did not talk a lot about all his experiences, but with his Record of Service as Clerk G.D. are letters...
I was subsequently moved in a small group to Port Reitz Airfield at Mombassa under the command of the C in...
A flash from an aldis lamp, on the darkened runway, was the only signal for our five-man Whitley V bomber...
Nothing exciting happened in 1943 when Johnny was with Coastal Command, but when he returned to Bomber...
Eventually in the Autumn of 1942 I went to the Isle of Man and completed the training for a...
The Warrant Officer then gave one of the party a travel warrant for West Drayton where there was an old RAF...
While I was in the South Zeal Air Training Corps, one weekend we went on a visit to Yelverton RAF...
After many courses covering devices such as Parachute and Cable, Dummy flare paths, and Starfish Decoy Site...
There had been 38 Halifax and 36 Gliders lined up for take-off - 2 Halifax were 鈥渟pare鈥. From...
Throughout the whole operation, he showed the greatest possible determination and pluck鈥; F/O...
This squadron had as it's previous Commanding Officer, the late Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C.; who...
On Christmas Day 1943 I was feeding the poultry and heard aircraft coming up from the South 鈥 40...
I was part of the 46 squadron detachment on the escarpment above Tobruk, close to the "Tobruk...
Landing at an airfield on Ramree Island off the Araken coast with food and cigarettes, I expected a warm...
Now the trains in India were often full then, and the express train to Bombay from Calcutta took 36 hours,...
The famous aviator Amy Johnson flew from Blackpool Airport to deliver aircraft to an airfield near London....
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