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My most memorable day in the WAAFs

Our Officer was a fairly young Irish man whom everyone called Paddy - behind his back of course! We girls...

Memories of an Aircraftman in WW2

Joined the Ordnance Survey in the London Office and was trained as a Cartographer and in early 1943 joined...

My "D" Day 50 years ago.

I had joined the Forces the W.A.A.F. in April 1942, and after early training at Cheltenham, I was posted to...

The Night I Came of Age.

Cross country exercises were carried out in an Avro Anson with semi-retractable undercarriage, the crew...

Lorne's Tale, by Walter Morison

Lorne was an RAF pilot and on July 31st 1942 he was flying as captain of a Wellington bomber, with four...

My Life

Unfortunately contracted influenza and failed the pilots course, then remusted to air gunner.Then on...

SECRETS

Registering enemy Morse Code radio messages which had been picked up by our signal stations in Great...

good landing

We were training out, this was a flight that we took at Redeer in Alberta, and of course, during, you just...

Peggy Clark (m. Bacon)

So, despite her preference for the Equipment branch, by dint of coming from her parents鈥� home at the...

My Wartime Memories 1939-1947

At the beginning of 1939 I was employed as a fitter at Gloster Aircraft Co. at Hucclecote, Gloucester......

A rendez-vous on the rock

My eldest brother, Johnny was in the Royal Artillery and the middle one, Buddy was in ther Rifle Brigade...

Frank Richardson's War

Afterwards I joined the Coastal Command Squadron in Cornwall and was posted throughout the war to all sorts...

Heavy Water

This story is in memory of the crew of LJ 888 who took of on the night of 30/31 March 1945, for...

I Always Wanted to Fly an Aeroplane

At age thirteen (1938)Bill saw an aircraft fly overhead as he worked on the family farm with his Father and...

Almost a Prisoner

As the Beaufighters exploded, he flung himself under the canvas bed and was protected by the dug out. His...

Warime Memories

I was stationed at R.A.F Coningsby in Lincolnshire with 97 Squadron. This Squadron was "adopted" by...

A Varied Career as Potential Aircrew

At the end of the course we returned to London but were packed off to Paignton because of the Doodlebug...

Memories 1942 - 1944

In 1939 I worked in the food trade in Lincoln Co-op. I was then posted to RAF Cranwell where my main job...

Cpt. Ron 鈥淲impy鈥� Healey 鈥� Low-Level Night Raid in Italy

I was stationed in Italy for much of the war, flying light bombers on night raids with the 55 Squadron...

Frederick Seaby's War

I was engaged in Airfield Defence - on Ack Ack guns and small arms fire. We got as far as Palel where...

Wartime Travels

In 1944, still with 707, we were posted to India, based in Calcutta, at the Headquaters of British...

My Experience in the 2nd Air Division, Eighth Air Force, WWII

Logan, Colorado. I was sent to England and joined the 2nd Bomb Wing 鈥� later the 2nd Air Division of...

Tour of Operations , Bomber Command

More lectures, square bashing and boredom, until,, after about three weeks, on morning parade it was...

Cpt. Ron 鈥淲impy鈥� Healey 鈥� A Post-War Crash

I was later posted to Germany to the Island of Silt on the 10th of March 1953, running target towing...

War as it had to be

At the age of 18, I was what was known as a Fitter Armourer; I was trained on the Bristol Beaufort, a...

My Father 170 Squadron RAF Hemswell

My Late father Harold Alfred Windsor Beck served with Bomber Command 170 Squadron RAF Hemswell during the...