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First operational sortie in a Lancaster

F/Lt Peter Baxter recounts how after joining the RAF as an apprentice before the war, he started his...

How a Tiger Moth made me late for school

During WWII, our house in Lincoln Road, Walton, Peterborough was under the landing path of Tiger Moth...

Operation Manna

So to end this short story, as a crew of a lancaster bomber we had been a few days before on what...

RAF Navigator

Crewed up at Silverstone and flew Wellingtons with 2 engines and from there onto Operational Training Unit....

Wireless Training in The Gambia

When our draft arrived in Africa we were posted to the R.W.A.F.F. Signals Unit, with its H.Q in Accra After...

1) My Brother and I

FLYING WITH THE GIs

In 1942 when I was 16, I was in the Air Training Corps, and went on a weekend visit to a RAF...

Ground Support for Allied Armies with Spitfires and Meteors of the Second Tactical Air Force

After a brief spell with another squadron Peter was posted, on 14th April 1945, to No 322 Squadron at...

Seige of Malta

The journey took us over three days and all the time we had over a thousand aircraft searching to bomb us,...

BELOW, ABOVE AND BEYOND

After Germany surrendered in 1945, I was posted to a Glider Pick-Up Unit at RAF Ibsley, in the south of...

A War Time Salvage Story

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

Tour of Operations , Bomber Command

Now it was back to reality and a posting to 31 Bombing and Gunnery School at Picton, Ontario... Canadian...

A Free State electrician in the RAF

But several of my friends had joined the RAF at that stage. I had a cousin, he also joined the RAF...

Tour of Operations

Allocated aircraft PM-B Bomb load 15000 Ibs GP Bombs....

Beat This For A Coincidence!!

The following is a true story of Jerry Clements from his small garage near Bobby's Cycles in...

FIDO - Carnaby's faithful watchdog (Part 2)

Recently, whilst researching church history in the local library and going through old newspapers, I came...

One Man's War -Part 24: March 21, 1945 -- May 26, 1945 Part Two

When it came my turn to be positioned for take-off the deck officer directed me to the center of the deck...

Alexander James Heyworth

His first aircraft flown at Rolls-Royce was the Fairey Battle modified as a testbed for the Exe engine and...

Banquet Lights - 'Tiger Moth Bombers'

This became so serious that it was decided to fit bomb racks to De Havilland ‘Tiger Moth’...

"Window"

The aim was to clutter the enemy radar, and so make it difficult for their operators to distinguish real...

Photographing The War

During the last 4 months of the war in Italy, 18 miles behind the line at the River Po, I was with...

DOMINION MONARCH

It is in two parts; first an introduction and then the main story I have, also in my possession a pack of...

Sgt. Reginald William Carpenter, RAF. d. 6.1.1944.

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

ARMY DAM BUSTER

He spent 19 months in the Army before being transferred to the R.A.F. at Cossington in Leicestershire and...

Pembroke Dock 1944 'The Sunderland Crash'

I returned to the scene of the crash, taking with me the Wing Commander Flying, who wanted to see the state...

Two who were so lucky

I spent two y ears as a wireless operator in the RAF before re-mustering to Flying duties where I...