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Bombed Out & Friendly Fire

A couple of minutes later, Ken our wireless operator, standing in the astra-dome, a cupola just behind the...

Ken Furness Flies Special Operations

Then we were posted as a crew to RAF Tempsford in Devonshire for special duties. A group photo was taken at...

ALL FOR 50 RUPEES A MONTH!!!

I joined 31 Squadron R.A.F, as an engine fitter about the middle of 1941 at Lahore, in the Punjab. The...

Blackpool 1941/1942

Blackpool was seething with airmen who were accommodated in boarding houses... On Saturday February 21st...

First D.F.M for RAF Marham WW2 ( part 1 )

Warrant Officer John James Copley D.F.M. 52125 38 and 7 Squadron R.A.F. During 38 Squadrons first...

Tracers coming through the thatch

Missions from Woodhall Spa I didn't quite get the chop Little humour in adversity Ted Porters Crew The...

Shaibah 1941/2

We were clearly in trouble but decided to bluff it out as long as possible.Somehow,by means I cannot...

Written by my Dad for the Bedford museum

Well we carried on to our next turning point which was to the South of Pilzen but about 7 minutes before my...

Airfield Construction

We were trained as part of an experiment by AMWD to undertake all elements of airfield construction and had...

Air Raid Precautions Ambulance Service

At the outset of WW2, at the age of 17 years, Joseph enlisted with the Air Raid Precautions Ambulance...

Adam and Christine's War

At the outbreak of World War II he, along with many other servicemen, left Poland to continue the struggle...

John's War

I spent the last three years of the war after I had completed my training with 57 squadron as a flight...

RAF and WRAF 170 Squadron Hemswell

During her time at Hemswell Joan met her future husband Dennis Abbott at one of the regular dances at the...

Driving Around the Middle East for the RAF

I had been a lorry driver in civilian life and went to an RAF establishment in Blackpool for driver...

A wartime romance

In 1942 two new squadrons arrive, no's 61 and 106 Guy Gilson of Dam Busters fame was the squadron...

Lucky for Some!

I understood that I would meet up with a pilot and a wireless operator to form a crew of a Lockheed Hudson...

A Wonderful Team

By Mr J Wolfendale, who was ground crew man with Spitfires at Biggin Hill, a bone of contention for...

My First Month as a Father

On both days we bombed the marshalling yards at Bocholt in Germany. My aircraft was full of holes, my...

Go West Young Man

Once back in England I finished up in Swinderby. During this time I was with a conversion unit working with...

The night my dead RAF brother 'came home'

Sgt Bishop and F/O G M Doolan are buried at the Asniers-Sur-Oise Communal Cemetery, France in Graves 1 and...

Sabotage, Nuremburg & Stork Club Steins

On the 15th November of that year the Squadron was disbanded and the Spitfires handed over to the French...

Memories of a Navigator Bomb Aimer

There was the pilot, a wireless operator from Mamties, a rear gunner from Cyprus, a straight navigator from...

My Ninth Life

I then had 7 days leave and then back to Blackpool to a place called Weeton for an MT course where we...

The Spitfire

I was to get involved in two such projects, the first was to deliver a Spitfire to the French Navy to an...

THE AIRCRAFT THAT WOULD NOT FLY

We then moved up to the Burma border to RAF Madhiganj to fly an American dive bomber, the Vultee Vengeance....

Cyril (charlie) Wiltshires war

With the speed of a gazelle I packed a small suitcase with my minimum wardrobe, carreid my raincoat, and...