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Scampton memories

On joining the WAAF at 18 I was posted to Blackpool... Soon afterwards the WAAF wre posted to a place...

War time service H.M. Forces.

Ron was an engine mechanic with a bomber squadron flying Lancasters... Ron's service was all in the UK...

The bombing of Dresden

The Germans had done the same to Coventry and we did that to Dresden in retaliation. Ironically, years...

Gumboots in the box at the Theatre

We got to Wing, and then Aylesbury, and from there we took the train to London. We went to the London...

A WAAF In the Secret Service

I joined the WAAFs as I wanted to become a wireless operator air gunner; but unfortunately, they would not...

The first time I flew

In the Spitfire 22 with the Griffin engine has terrific torque on it... That was my first flight in a...

Entertaining the Resting Soldiers

I was made welfare officer but my squadron was posted and I was left behind in Malta. After about a year,...

A Limavady Man in the Navy

I was in the Navy and I went to America on the Queen Elizabeth and then was transferred onto the USS...

What might have been

Albans Catholic High School in Ipswich on behalf of Jim and has been added to the site with his permission....

Rhodesian Missing Pilots

I read with interst the story by Derek Wilkins as I was a pilot teaching Navigation on Kumalo airfield for...

A WAAF In the Secret Service

I joined the WAAFs as I wanted to become a wireless operator air gunner; but unfortunately, they would not...

Wartime Wickford

After that I was sent to Burma with 132 RSU where we used to repair damaged aircraft, or had been lost in...

My First Love

They very often brought servicemen home for Sunday lunch, two of them, in particular, a young Jamacian...

HOME FORCES - Fortress Lands End, RAF took it away

In 1943 an American Fortress, short of fuel and returning from a submarine bombing mission in Brest, landed...

Self Starting Engine Saves Three Lives.

In 1943 I was posted to Canada, initially to Patricia Bay, the Canadian Coastal Command Unit then to Debert...

Pack it in, chum !!

Heyford K6897.Cross Country Mildenhall to Hendon and Return. Having finished my radio work, climbed into...

Stanley the Heroic Hampden Pilot

The Hampdens were twin-engine bombers, but by about 1942 they becoming obsolete and so were used by Coastal...

Raid on Peenemunde

I was sent to 158 Squadron in the summer of 1943, the squadron had huge losses when I joined and I was...

Malta tragedy

We were based at a landing strip - we didn't go to very many airfields - when we were in Malta we...

Lincolnshire Aerodromes

We later went to RAF Scampton to extend the runway there for the 4-engined Lancaster bombers. The Airborne...

Jankers

From there I was posted to Morecambe in Lancashire before finally finishing up at Cardington near Bedford....

Christmas Leave

Reg Bowyer has permission to be absent from his quarters/duty from 12.00 hrs 29.12.39 to 18.15 hrs 5.1.40...

Risky Rescues

At that stage they brought in a 'Walrus'; they picked up the crew, sank the bomber and then failed...

A Day to Remember: May 8th 1945

After 5 years as a POW I was at Reims Airport waiting for Lancaster bombers from a Lincolnshire RAF station...

Meeting My Wife

George was torpedoed but survived in South Africa and later suffered serious injuries from a plane crash at...

HURRICANE FIGHTER SHOT DOWN AT DARTMOUTH

I was attending Dartmouth Boys School and during the lunch hour I was walking across the playground when I...