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RAF Anecdotes

The squadron was brought in to Dunholme Lodge, the Main Force base, which was where I was based. It was...

And Then It All Calmed Down!

We had to do Morse code training, and this was held in a room on the 5th floor of the Hotel Victoria...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Six - Escape from Singapore

I remained in Singapore, running the four remaining radar stations, the communications unit, the filter...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 5

I discovered that I had two brothers in law already in Kent - both Sergeants, as I was, and each was in...

Lens RAF Aircrew Days

I was posted to technical training but had pneumonia and so had 10 weeks in Princess Mary's RAF...

WW2 in SWANSEA

The first memory of WW2 that I have is seeing my father in RAF uniform and my grandfather in his naval...

South Norfolk Air Raids

My home was at Pulham St. Mary which had been an airship base and still had one of the old airships hangers...

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 3 Germany The Long March

Jan 22 Reported Russian armour over Oder Bridge which we crossed reported demolished, at 3 a.m. Panic...

Ceylon

Trincomalee on the north-east coast of Ceylon. Looking down from the top of a hill near our camp I could...

RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner Egypt (1) - Sign on and Training

My maths not being up to much I was offered the post of W/Op Air gunner and was asked what I thought...

The Glider's Landing Strip.

In the early stages of the war I was posted to a make shift airfield at Old Sarum working with Short...

Recollections of First-Hand Experiences in the Second World War 1939-1945

Air Chief Marshal Bomber Harris and Air Marshal Bennett thought up and developed "the pathfinder...

The Sixth Son of the Regimental Sergeant Major; Part 4

We left Gravelines all safe and sound and travelled to Ghent in Belgium where we stayed overnight,...

65 Year Quest for Archive Footage of an RAF Aircraftman Missing presumed Dead

The official report of the Heligoland battle stated that ''The laurels go to the Wellington...

From one war zone to another

We were only there until we could be dispersed to other places, mostly England or South Africa. In October...

A Drivers Tale In India

After seven days we drove the lorries onto railway tracks and after 12 hours we arrived at Calcutta and...

The Last Flight of Lancaster PB409

On the night of the 23rd September 1944, Lancaster Bomber PB409 of 97th Squadron, Royal Air Force Bomber...

Enlisting for the R.A.F. by Edward Horgan

As you can imagine, I came out of the building absolutely shattered; my two friends passed with flying...

H. D. Hugill SGT Story

On one side of the station was the river Euphrates then out airstrip then a plateau of hills which took us...

5th June 1944

The 5th June 1944 found me at Hurn, an airfield near Bournemouth, with 604 sqdn, a night fighter squadron...

A War Veteran's Experiences Remembered.

We as bomber crews never had fighter protection on any of our night bombing raids and our own squadron...

The Caterpillar Club and The Goldfish Club

The first story began in June 1942 when as members of a Wellington bomber crew we were based at Harwell,...

My Introduction to War

There was dust visible ion the distance and the officer told us we had no time for breakfast, every vehicle...

An RAF LAC and his Luftwaffe Counterpart?

My father used this man's camerato take photographs of himself in the same locations in Tripoli where...

RAF Sopley Starlight GCI Station

On Christmas Day 1940 a Royal Air Force mobile unit found a site suitable for a ground control intercept...

"HMS Jason" comes under friendly fire after the D-Day landings by Thomas Jackson

Sixty years ago on August 27th 1944, I was 22 years of age, on board His Majesty's Royal Navy Ship...