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119 squdron R A F

I was posted to R A F station Birchamnewton september 1944 ,from 416 squdron R C A F Manston Kent to become...

Memories of the WRAF

My job was driving big transport carriers, transporting air crew to the airfield where they were learning...

Burma

Maurice Foulds along with brothers Norman, who was a mosquito navigator in the RAF and Alan, who was...

A dressing down from General Wavell

They had Buffalo aircraft in Singapore and the Japanese had shot them all down, and had also bombed Kallang...

A7424606 My original assignment

As Radar was in its early days because of my technical qualification I was sent to the Military College of...

I held them all up with a tommy gun!

We held up the FIAT motor factory in Italy one day- just outside Turin. Enjoying a beer Spears No ordinary...

Friendly Fire

It was 鈥渨ings for victory week鈥� as part of the celebrations the local air force commander sent...

My experiences in Royal Air Force

I became an air gunner, and flew with Canadian Air Force as they were short of both air gunners and...

Court martialled for not being dead

An old workmate come drinking buddy of my father, who we new as Tom, was one for recounting war time...

Invaders at Carnaby

We thought he might be a German. A German plane - as we were coming home from Carnaby School one day when...

Lancaster Navigator from Canada

During the War I would travel quite often to visit Aunt Ina and her family in Edinburgh as they were the...

ALAN MORGAN: BOMBING RAIDS. 24/25 FEBRUARY,1944. SCHWEINFURT.

Runway repairs at Fiskerton caused by P/O Clarke's crash had not yet been completed, so the...

Lost 1940's - Found 1990s

I checked the Hull Daily Mail website and saw a few Bereavement notices had been placed in the paper, one...

Working on the aircraft in Sealand

I was working with one of the joiners in Sealand, working on aircraft....

The Wrekin Service Club - Membership Card

My Father, Sydney Galloway, was a member there. The Home Guard, Wellington Wellington Allotments &...

The raid on Augsburg, April 1942.

I learned later from the 大象传媒 news that on that day, 17th April, a top secret and meticulously planned...

The Polish Pilot by Ian Burton

My dad's farther used to work in the mines and was therefore not allowed to join up, so instead he...

Lancasters

His job was to greet returning Lancaster bombers from their bombing raids. He would cycle to Boston...

Plane shot down over Exeter

They reported it and an aircraft from Exeter Airport took off and shot it down. A Beaufighter shot a JU88...

L.A.C.W (leading air craft women)

Mrs Williams joined the air force in 1940 and trained to be a flight machanic at Henersford in...

The Home Guard Wellington

This photograph was taken of the Home Guard in Wellington, as they marched down Sutherland Avenue, past...

Damaged Spitfire

Squadron Leader Lance Wade D.F.C.and two bars, top scoring fighter pilot of the Western Desert, who...

Can you define the taste?

One evening we had finished servicing aircraft and waiting for the tractor to take the plane to the...

Where are they now? Photo three - the pilot

By this time we had landed in France and established operational airfields. He was now a Wing Commander, no...

Spring of 1942

I was based ar RAF Brancote at the time , and all of the fields in the South and East of England...

A Canadian pilot in Orkney

'I am Canadian and my papa was in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot of Ferdinand II - a Halifax...