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Three brushes with RAF Barnwood Station Warrant Officer... Shortly after settling into C2 central registry...

Haunted By Tirpitz

The brave airmen from Woodhall have sunk The Tirpitz! We also attended a lecture in 2004 held at the...

Posting to Hamburg

I joined the WAAF when I was 18 and was posted to Headquarters Fighter Command at Bentley Priory... We were...

Re: RECCE SPITFIRE - 9 TIMES SHOT DOWN

My great uncle Eric served as a photographer in the R.A.F. Although he served mainly as a Spitfire Pilot...

P.C Robert Black's Story

P.C Robert Black's Story...

I`d rather have gone by Easijet!

My pal and I were due to go on leave to Alexandria and it so happened the day we were leaving, one...

My Home Guard incident

I joined the 2nd Gloucestershire Battalion of the Home Guard at the age of 16 in December 1941, in the...

RAF High Ercall

I am currently writing a book entitled "Circuits and Bumps at RAF High Ercall" which includes...

World War 2 Recollections of a small boy.

He was based at Cap Serrat in Tunisia and Algiers, later in the year he was transferred to 272 Beaufighter...

Landing fee Sixpence

An RAF Towed Target Operator's Story

On the 6th May 1943, I joined the Royal Airforce and served as a Towed Target Operator on No. 41 O.T.U. RAF...

LAST OF THE YANKS IN THE UK

From 1942 to 1945 they operated B17 Flying Fortresses who flew daytime bombing raids on Germany. I was, at...

My life as Service Wife. 1949 - 1977

His final days in the RAF were spent at Swanton Morley as a Technical Author and Editor on the the early...

Mend these broken wings.

Also, we received aircraft coming from the factories so we could get them ready for combat, fitting them...

Wellington Bombers and other things

I was relieved from there in 1946. as our bomber were coming back they'd get back in the early morning...

bills war

One day I was demonstrating a grenade thrower called the Northover projector. We were in thick mud and one...

Fetching Wrecks

His Unit worked in India and Burma, and occasionally got within range of the Japanese Army. The unusual...

Memories of a Flight Sergeant

When I enlisted there were 50 of us and no aircraft, by time 34 Wing was put together there were 2,500 of...

Memories of a lad from Moston

So I went into RAF Police........ 2 陆 years later I was a sergeant in the RAF Police when my air crew...

RAF Language Training

At the age of 17 I volunteered for the RAF and was chosen to take a course in Japanese... The RAF station...

Where Are They Now?

These photographs were taken by me when commissioned in the RAF Photographic Branch and stationed at...

One week in the life of a ATC cadet at camp

We had just missed the week before when the RAF had done their first 1,000 aircraft bombing raid of the war...

Ernest Yates

This was a period of no fixed abode for the RAF, rolling up from one airfield to another behind the...

wescombe crew

I would like to contribute in any way I can to add to this research, make contact with other relatives of...

Wireless Operator in Chicksands and Germany

In Germany I ended up at Bad Eilsen, the air head-quarters for the R.A.F. I went to work in the signals...

FOGGIA, ITALY

Our target was Piraeus, the docks area of Athens, and we were carrying a bomb load of 9 *500lb HE bombs. In...