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Brian Colman

Happily for Brian, the RAF set more store by its fledgling ATC cadets and he achieved his purpose. This...

A Shaky Do!

On the 29th of November 1944 I was an Air bomber on Lancaster PB 465 鈥楩鈥� from 103 Sqdn RAF...

ESCAPED SINGAPORE, TAKEN ON JAVA

AFTER AN ENGINEERING APPRENTICESHIP AT AUTOMOWER ENGINEERING IN NORTON ST. PHILIPS HE JIONED THE R.A.F. AT...

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett (nee Wear) BEM - Special Duties

We went to Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire where we trained for three weeks as Plotters where you had a...

Attack on Prinz Eugen

However, his body was recovered to be buried in a Comonwealth War Grave in the picturesque village of Vanse...

My first aircraft

Our town was in the flying path to Germany, so many aircraft passed over our town... The Germans had a...

RAF Warboys - October 1944.

Although Warboys in Huntingdonshire was mainly for navigation and bombing, the majority of aircrews who...

Cpt. Ron 鈥淲impy鈥� Healey - Our End to the War

I was the pilot of an A20 Boston light bomber with the 鈥楴ight Intruders鈥�, and the army we were...

Thanks To The American Bombers For The Lift Home!

On our return to Britain at the end of 1941 we were posted to Wick to guard Scapa Flow and keep an...

My time in the R.A.F

In September 1943 I finished my training at Elementary Flying Training School and Secondary Flying Training...

Courier To General Eisenhower

On 17th August 1944, George, then F/Sgt Shepherd, was attached to No.24 Squadron, Hendon where he was made...

Thousand Bomber Raid

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

Mrs Miles (Sammy鈥檚 mum)

I was sent to RAF Innsworth in Gloucs for 6 weeks training, which was a bit of a cultural shock sharing a...

W.AAF War Memories

From Blakehill Farm, Cricklade, Wiltshire, I was posted to Stoney Cross in the New Forest, Transport...

Loss Without Notice

It was the usual day at Llandwrog 鈥� target towing, two separate towings and two separate Whitley...

Tales from an Engineering Officer with 617 Sqadron

Cheshire thought that the new American Mustang fighter bomber would be the ideal thing for this mission....

Our Surprise Visitor

Five minutes later we couldn't believe our eyes, we were being inspected by Montgommery and his wife,...

Diary of Pathfinder Cleary POW

My grandfather Dave Cleary and great-uncle Len Such were both Path Finders flying Halifaxes during the...

Douglas Robb's War

I was posted to Scarborough for two years and then to Blackpool for another four years. I used to get my...

Flying out P.O.W.s and Flying in Bailey Bridges

I was part of the 267 Squadron who were charged with flying these sick, emaciated men to Akyab Island from...

Norman Allaway

Prior to the war my brother Norman Allaway had been at university studying to become a teacher. Although...

Memories of an Erk

One night I was on the air field on boundary duty in an armoured car... A burst from the twin Vickers...

Warrant Officer Pilot

Coincidence at Christmas

As Christmas 1942 the cadet pilots like myself were asked if we would like to go to a local family who had...

The Only Raid on Barnstaple / Flying Coffins

The RAF Chivenor airfield and on the flat land of the Taw Estuary, at the foot of Saunton Down. The Bristol...

The Flying Spaniel

Michael, a three year old cocker spaniel owned by Sqn Ldr Budden DFC, DSO was reported as...