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Direction Finding for damaged bombers

I was in the RAF, Manston in Kent. I did square bashing and then went to wireless school at RAF Compton...

Uncle George's War

George was born April 24, 1920 at 12, Princes Ave, Wheeler St, Hull, E. Yorks and educated at Paisley St...

I Never Knew until I Saw it on the 大象传媒 WW2 Website, and I was Surprised.

Last night just as I was going to bed I clicked on to see if my son, who lives in England, had...

An unusual 48 hour pass

The boatman suggested hitch-hiking to the nearest bit of civilisation so duly I walked for 3 miles and was...

Life in the 91 (Nigeria) Squadron

Our squadron consisted of people from America, France, Australia and New Zealand. Capitaine Jean Maridor, a...

The Rufforth Front Line

Rufforth aerodrome was an RAF base for bomber aircraft, usually the 鈥楬alifax鈥� a Yorkshire named...

Life-saving telegram

Jerry had heard aircraft approaching - there were 27 of them dropping 100lb anti-personel bombs - and he...

Tour of Operations , Bomber Command

The next stage of training was to be ITW, but there was congestion in the supply line from ACRC to the...

German Crosses On FW 190

We were there about ten days and then flew in an Anson of 85 Group Communication Flight from Carpiquet to...

My Years in the R.A.F

I flew in Wellington Bombers and being a Rear-Gunner is pretty frightening. I also flew in Lancaster...

'Jungle Wireless'.

In 1943, having trained as a 鈥楽pecial Wireless Operator鈥� in England, I was sent to India to...

On a Wing and a Prayer

We were on a bombing run, going to Frankfurt. An aircraft above us, bomb doors open, released the bombs and...

World War Two Key Dates

1946 1st January: Commanding Officer for 701 Squadron 20th March 1946: Last flight in the Royal Navy 9th...

Saturday Afternoon Air Man

I was a Saturday afternoon air man and I joined the local squadron at Hooton Park Aerodrome in January...

Cpt. Ron 鈥淲impy鈥� Healey 鈥� My First Night Raid in Italy

We were a front line unit, and during the winter of 1943 we were stationed in Italy in Cecina with the...

鈥淔lying Tonight鈥�

Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Den Helder, Ijmuiden, Heligoland and Hook of Holland anti-shipping raids...

James Reginald Charlton - 9 Squadron RAF/Gateshead Boys

Wellingtons did not require a Flight Engineer and it was only when we progressed to Stirlings did they...

Female RAf sparky!

Her story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. It was...

pilot got out unscathed

My very good friend John Barden who then witnessed the actual crash watched in disbelief as the pilot...

A Great Squadron

I was a Saturday afternoon air man and I joined the local squadron at Hooton Park Aerodrome in January...

A Bowler Hat

The massive military army exercise took place in the South of England in preparation for the invasion of...

north african service

We eventually arrived at Salisbury station, a bedraggled lot, and thence to Netheravon, Wiltshire.We were...

Working in Secret

MI5 were having a shortage of operatives as only 5% of Britain's spoke German She was sent to Liverpool...

BURNED-OUT IN BURMA

We could see that it was going to engulf us if we didn't get out, so we started going down the path,...

My Role as a Balloon Operator

I was stationed at RAF Filton at Bristol, I served in the Flight HQ of Balloon Command. Whilst on night...

The British Experience of the Battle of Britain

Although I was also trained to fly the Hawker Hurricane, the spitfire felt the most natural fighter plane...