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Ivy Smith WAAF Sparking Plug Tester

Ivy did her initial training at Harrogate and was passed out and posted to RAF Holme upon Spalding Moor,...

DADS WAR 1940-1945

ODIUM WAS NEXT 21ST OCTOBER 1944 WHICH IS WHERE HE UNDER WENT INVASION TRAINING 56 SQUADRON FOLLOWED THE...

Ditching in the North Atlantic

He hung on to the leading edge until the aircraft landed on the water. It was also picked up by the SS...

Evasion in WW2, 60 years on

Every year, Thomas Jones visits Eden Camp museum in Yorkshire, to lay a bunch of flowers with a small card...

DFM and DFC Citations for Squadron Leader Jack Blair from Egremont, Cumbria.

DFM and DFC Citations for Squadron Leader Jack Blair from Egremont, Cumbria. Squadron Leader Jack Blair DFC...

Using up more of my nine lives...

All the time we were in Palestine we carried arms, one or two problems: I was in a church one time opposite...

Shelmerdine - Vignettes 7 - Short Break in Malta Jan 1943

Did however take the precaution of taking a piece of paper, signed by a senior person at home, requesting...

The Third Bomber (1)

Any pilot at that point of an engagement would have been excused for breaking off with a feeling of a job...

Wartime Coincidences (With Happy Endings)

My crew were on duty, so I was able to carry out a sort of ‘preview’, and immediately espied a...

Up Up and Away

In 1938 as the German army entered Czechoslovakia this young man with a group of his airforce comrades...

Caught by Searchlight

The bullets hit the fuselage just as our mid upper and rear gunners, Joe Malloy and Joe Pollard, took aim...

Nearly getting 'the chop'

Den went to the Cockpit and I started to scramble up the trestle and had just got my hands round the metal...

No Horseplay the Night before D-Day

Gordon Allum, now 79, was born and raised in Hayes, Middlesex, but in a transit camp for the Navy near...

Christopher Froehlich's Story of his Father's time in the RAF

Although he held a Civilian Pilot's Licence he was unable to join the Czech Air Force, but only the...

Jimmy Slack

In May 1940, No.238 reformed at Tangmere as a fighter squadron with Spitfires but in June these were...

Out of the blue - memories of the WAAF by Joyce Brooke

His excuse for not meeting me was ' he was duty stooge', having lunch and drinks in the Mess, with...

mickey the moocher

It is all about "Mickey the Moocher" and Frank Mouritz's crew. and apart from Arthur Bass the...

A Foggy Night Over The Adriatic

Up to and for some months after the Europe War ended on 8th May 1945 I served as a navigator on 70...

ALAN MORGAN, FLIGHT ENGINEER

The other returning Lancs had been diverted to Dunholme Lodge, but Fiskerton gave Jack special permission...

Your story edited and categorised

We flew a Lancaster bomber- two gunners, flight engineer, navigator,wireless operator, pilot and bomb...

Mickey the Moocher

The interest that we have as a family in "Mickey" is that Denis Cluette my brother-in-law, was the...

My Adventures in WW2 - Part 2

We were by the sea but the nearest town was a place called Crato an Arab city built right in the heart...

Flying Skeleton

Returning from a daylight attack on Brest during 1941, Sqn Ldr Budden's Wellington bomber was described...

1943

I looked up into the sky and very high up I could see a column of planes flying towards the coast... The...

American Pilot brings Bit Bomber back to England on One Engine Only, After Attack (20th April 1944)

The IP or turning point of this mission was a fix on the G box located off the Isle of Jersey in...

WW2

The Squadron was equipped with Boston aircraft, which were American built medium bombers... We then changed...