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Tour of Operations

Allocated to PM-X A straight forward attack on the airfield, one of six airfields in Southern Holland...

Pat's War

We trained at RAF Cranwell - we were Wing Commander Steddy's girls... I worked on Oxfords and Ansons to...

RAF Friston

August 1943 C Flight from 3210 was posted to RAF Friston Eastbourne to work with a Belgian Squadron of...

I hate malted milk tablets.

I slipped a Horlicks tablet into my mouth as I stepped up into the astro-dome, an extra pair of eyes...

Training with 7 Squadron

On 57 and 97 Squadrons there was no Flight Engineer Leader or an Engineers Office, and flight engineers...

Flying Lancasters

I was sent to Stratford on Avon for the Initial Ground Training, then to Wolverhampton for flying...

A Long Wait For Demobilisation

In 1944, this was the time of the flying bombs and V2 rockets, but there were compensations in being able...

Life back in Civvy Street

The letters were written by G. Alex Thorne DSO DFC, Master Bomber, one of the founder pilots of the...

Radio news reel

GRANTHAM: My job is to pack and store supplies of all kinds into special cintainers and baskets to be...

Manna from heaven

Rear Gunner Lancaster 617 Squadron

This is the story of a friend of mine, William Wait, also known as Chum or Noel, who went to become an...

PIANOS BREED MOSQUITOES!

The double curvature lightweight plywood technology developed for the Mosquito was also used on Hengist and...

From Grimethorpe to North Africa, Italy and France

From North Africa we went to Corsica first and then Italy....

Life as a 'Plotter' in Fighter Command

It was a Fighter Command Aerodrome, which had Mosquito night fighters and Spitfire day fighters. Radar was...

No Subject

My crew were: Ken Simons, Kenneth Smith,Shorty Williams Frank Smith, Charles Smith and Geoff Duce John...

Squadron life from a Flight Mechanic.

He was Dennis Mooney from London and we became true buddies always working together on the same Aircraft....

Making parts in Cambridge

On one shift, all of a sudden, I heard a German airplane and my whole bedroom was lit up with searchlights...

Larks

He was duly proud of his acheivments, but when he got winf that a reward for the best performance in trials...

The Second Spitfire

In early 1938, lo and behold, a beautiful monoplane landed at 19 squadron - the first Spitfire to be issued...

The Development of the Merlin Engine for Lancasters

F/Lt Peter Baxter recalls his experience with the history of Merlin Engines in Lancaster Bombers... The...

Maydwn Airfield, Derry - Nat Mc Glinchey remembers playing in crashed planes

And it was inside the fuselages, it was just a mine of info.I've never seen as many Swordfish...

Sadness

You see he was Flt Sgt Middleton, the Captain of Skinners crew. They had been to Turin in Italy in a...

The Day War broke out

As young aircrew we were not really interested in politics and not really aware of what was happening in...

A Wartime Salvage Story

I thought it better, at that moment, not to mention that a year, or so, earlier a Wellington bomber HAD...

Two Brothers Meet

Sgt. Reginald William Carpenter, RAF d. 6.1.1944.

On 26th July 1944 The Air Ministry wrote confirming that Sgt. Stuart who was on the same flight was buried...