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Memories of 'D' Day and Beyond

At the end of the Training and of the Courses, I was posted to '48 Squadron' which was based at...

RAF Memories

Frequently parachute drops would go astray and land behind enemy lines in the hands of the Germans. In 1974...

A Veteran Looks Back - Chapter 9

After two weeks of flying Halifaxes, we moved across the base to the side the sleek looking Lancasters were...

Seeing is Believing.

Flying at hedge hight along side of the car was a four engined war time bomber and as my friends wife had...

Flying Blind

Flying east, Jock opened a small transom window at the bottom of the screen to see where we were going......

Keeping the Lancasters flying

Gordon was a Corporal in the RAF from 1941-1947, servicing Lancaster Aircraft for 8 Group, Pathfinders, 635...

The Uncle I Never Knew

He was serving with 32 OTU R.A.F based at Patricia Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada....

When the Uboats Surrendered at Lisahally

Eddie Davis — The Surrender of the Uboats at Lisahally. One day near the end of the war the boss Mr...

Tour of Operations -9

We were now part of "Tiger Force" which was 5 Group renamed and we were to fly the Lancasters out...

LIFE AS A LADY ARMOURER

Then I was posted to RAF Leuchars where I worked with seaplanes as well as the spitfires, etc... We landed...

138 Squadron RAF (Bod Droppers/Moonlighter)

On completion I was posted to 534 Squadron, RAF at Tangmere, American Boston's with a searchlight in...

Losing contact.

Peter Waddle was mad on the R.A.F. and when he was old enough he wanted to go into the R.A.F. and become...

Memories Vol 2

My own cousin Harry was in the RAF and was captured bythe germans and ended up in a prison camp for RAF...

Fond Memories - I Was Lucky

Whilst waiting in transit in Cairo, I visited the local town and approached a gentleman about gaining some...

Royal Artillery

In April 1945 having returned to our base in Chigwell Essex we were undertaking arctic training under...

Memories of the Malta Siege

First of all, it was the Italians but then the Germans took over and it was relentless: they bombed day and...

From Cardigan to Canada

We got into New York and then up to Canada, and after an initial period I was posted out to a little...

He Dipped his Wings and Met his God - the Last Raid of George Challinor

George Challinor my brother worked at the manor house in Pontesbury which was an ecclesiastical college...

Did you know...?

A total of 545 aircrew of Bomber Command were killed on one raid at Nuremburg on 31st March 1944. Missions...

Flying Fortresses and Halifaxes

I was then screened from flying further operations and sent to Silverstone where I took over a Wellington...

The Goodwill Mission

I was posted to a Turbinlite Havoc Squadron at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. The Film was Arthur Lucan and Kitty...

Bullet in the Bum!

Evacuated from London to Reading in Berkshire I organized my first Garden Fete there to raise money for the...

Better Born Lucky Than Rich - Plane Crash

We had just got down to have dinner & in comes Taff & we said, “We thought you were going up...

Scunthorpe to Southern Rhodesia

A mate had suggested we would travel by ship from Liverpool, but in fact we left from Tilbury, in Essex...

Parachute and Cable [P and C]

The course was for Parachute and Cable. The main purpose of this was for defence against low flying enemy...

Title: D-Day Bombing Mission

Our target was four large guns in a field at Montfleury, which was just behind the beach. We had 24...