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memories of an airfield near to where I lived

It was in the year of 1945 that we learned of a Sterling bomber crashing at a nearby airfield by the name...

Life with the Americans

One Yank said 鈥淗old on I got friendly with some R.A.F. and went on a night mission with them when I...

Aircraft qualified to fly as First Pilot

2 I had the time of my life 3 Flying Walruses 4 A Jack-of-all-trades 5 A lucky escape 6 Extra careful 7...

Royal Air Force 鈥� Service and Release Book

This Royal Air force Service and Release Book belong ed to my Father, Sgt. Philip Roy Gallop - 640712. The...

Real disinformation

Taking the Medical Officer for a Spin

At No.9 AGS Llandwrog, flying the Lysander was always a joy and I was called on to do special flights. One...

Two tiny tots

Safeguarding the secrecy of military operations Marlborough Theatre 鈥� 鈥淣ow or Never鈥� A...

Bombing Raids

Each station was told in minute detail where the bombing that night was to take place. So after the meeting...

My Papa

The Lancaster my Papa flew in, 'S for Sugar', can be seen in the RAF Museum at Hendon, near London...

Bomber Comand

I first went to Harwell as a stewardess for the air force, my experience being on bomber command was very...

Torpedoed on the Scythia

We had been afloat some days when on the night of 11th November 1942 we were torpedoed just a few miles...

Cross in the Sky

One night my sister Dorothy, wife of Wilfred, was stood at the door looking up at the sky when she saw a...

Alan鈥檚 Story - Dorothy Williamson -nee Threlfall

After raids on enemy territory our planes limped home, on a wing and a prayer, as a popular song at the...

Home Guard August 1942

It was a terrible scene, a B17 Flying Fortress Bomber, had crashed into the hill. I have found out since...

The Spitfire

Its ancestry was seaplanes, in the Schneider Trophy days,. That lovely Merlin purr, which says a...

Sport after work

Safeguarding the secrecy of military operations Marlborough Theatre 鈥� 鈥淣ow or Never鈥� A...

My join up

Kitchen utensils just a knife and fork, trying to eat custard, porridge, soup and stuff like that etc. was...

My join up

Kitchen utensils just a knife and fork, trying to eat custard, porridge, soup and stuff like that etc. was...

From Yorkshire to the Azores - playing football!

Then I was posted to the Coastal Command in the Azores where for the most part I actually spent most of my...

In the RAF

I joined the RAF in 1941, had six months training as a wireless operator - three months in Blackpool where...

John Ronald Mears- Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force

The 鈥榦ff duty鈥� tricks in South Africa included the trainees dumping a Baby Austin in a Cape...

Working Underground

Ted started his war life in the air force, stationed in Cardington, training as a Wireless Technician......

Bill's War

He was not pilot material, so he was eventually given the choice of becoming a rear-gunner in Lancaster...

Ian Harlands STORY

The Stirling bomber took off from Methwold airfield in Norfolk at 2329 hours on an operation to...

The V-Bomb: Hitler鈥檚 final attempt to Kill Britain

13th February 1944 鈥� No announcement has yet been made but already RAF Reconnaissance Planes have...

Benevolent Airmen

The notice gave the "blurb" about the RAFBF and then stated that all airmen WHO DID NOT wish to...