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V.E. Day

I was stationed at Oransden Lodge Airfield as a Flight Engineer with 405 City of Vancouver Squadron,, as...

Memoirs of an Air Bomber

Then I moved onto No.2 Initial Training Wing. I then moved on to Elementary Flying School which was a...

"Life in the W.A.A.F Jan 1942 to August 1945"

After collecting uniforms and having 2 weeks square bashing in blustery, rain swept Morecome and a month in...

Midnight Crash in a Wellington Aircraft

This I did, the chocks were moved, and we taxied out to the perimeter track with him at the controls until...

Aircraft Crash

During the second world war the carse of Stirling was used by the RAF for low fly training as low as thirty...

A typical bombing raid into Burma

Eventually the pilot made a brilliant lopsided landing in the dark, at a forward airfield at Chittagong. At...

It happened on D day

We were detailed to take paratroops from Broadwell in Oxfordshire to a field beside the river Orne at...

Aircraft Crash Stirling

During the second world war the carse of Stirling was used by the RAF for low fly training as low as thirty...

Crushed Youth

After a short leave I was ordered to go to RAF Longtown where I was crewed up and flew off to the...

Pat's War

We trained at RAF Chanwell. We wore battledress and navy berets on the flights but skirts and jackets on...

Sam's War part two by Jane Foster

In 101 Squadron, we would fly down to Italy to collect army officers and bring them back to England......

First Fighter Pilot killed in the war (Aka - The battle of Barking Creek)

Among these were a searchlight battery at Mersea Island as well as the RAF stations at North Weald and...

Sinking of the Troop transport ship - ANSLEM on 5th July 1941

THE SHIP SANK IN 22 MINUTES Mr Sharp wrote " I often wonder why his brave deed was not brought to light...

Wartime plane crash on Epsom racecourse

Story Title: Wartime plane crash on Epsom racecourse Your Name and full names of other people in your...

Uncle Edwin had trouble landing

Ralph Edwin Holmes was known to me as Uncle Edwin, he lived in Dibley Street, off Raby Street, Byker,...

Pathfinder Summer

One afternoon, when off duty, two mates and myself cycled to Huntingdon for our usual meal, a real treat at...

Aircraft maintenance on the move

We had to maintain the aircraft ….we had fitters who looked after the engine and fitters who looked...

Meeting At Night.

Our aircraft was badly hit, one engine damaged. and the Wellington bomber went out of control downwards....

Wartime plane crash on Epsom Downs

On the strength of my knowledge at the time, I can confirm that the aircraft which crashed onto Epsom...

A1071064 - R.A.F. plane crash 16-4-1944

On the 16th April 1944 I, then being 11year old boy was playing with friends outsideour house in a small...

Lizzie's Last Journey

During World War Two, 161 Special Duties Squadron of the Royal Air Force, was based at Tempsford and...

WE SHOULD HAVE HAD THE BACON AND EGGS FIRST

PEOPLE IN STORY: Bob Dolman LOCATION OF STORY: Newark MAIN AREA OF INTEREST: RAF, bombing raids TITLE: WE...

The One That Nearly Got Away

Early in 1945 we went to RAF Calshot to be made up into boat crews and later collected our own Ex Motor...

German aircraft shot down by the RAF fighter aircraft

I can recall seeing the RAF fighter aircraft when they shot down a German aircraft over the Harleston...

Battle of Berlin

With every city and large town in Germany similarly periodically attacked — the most sophisticated...

"BILL GORDON'S WAR WITH THE RAF IN NORTH AFRICA & ITALY"

My stories "Evacuees come to Evenwood" can be found at A4051072 & "My Daughter's...