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Dunkirk: Left Behind

I am not too sure whether they actually killed these men or whether they just took their boat - I think...

RAF Wireless Operator Air Gunner Egypt (2) - Baltimores

The turret on the Baltimore used point 5 guns which made the ammunition a good deal heavier and the linkage...

Loss of LJ888 Over Norway

Further more the Germans had located on the S.E. coast of Norway a radar station at Risor and a night...

Eileen's story

Two years later I met an RAF navigator officer called Lewis Harding.He was also known as "Curly...

Beatrice's Story to her Daughter

This is a story that Beatrice's daughter will cherish as Beatrice passed away last year....

Eddie Gurmin's story part 1: From Tredegar to Tregino

I was there for three months and when I left Kinloss I went down to an aerodrome called Dishforth near York...

The Smallships

My mother's brother, Eric Gammon, who was known as Bill, was a crew member on the Medway Queen which...

25,000 ft Down - and Alive: Bomber Crew Loss on Night of the Strong Winds

It is known that all the rest of the crew were buried in Berlin war cemetary. Sergent W H Burnell, the only...

Landing a Lancaster at Sea

I saw some water ahead, which I recognised as the Bay of Biscay, and so we set off low over the sea....

21st birthday - 2 days left

Now I had a cousin, he wasn't really my cousin, he was my dad's cousin's son, George Reed and...

J A Martin DFC - How a Crew Lost their Rank - LMF?

Johnny and his crew went out to the aircraft, but the crew said to Johnny, “We would like a rest...

A Spell of Duty in Burma

A larger box fitted centrally between two darkrooms and became the entrance to both, with the fittings to...

Guy Gibson's Autograph: Lincoln

One of the pupils said to me "I wish I had brought my autograph book with me, that is Guy Gibson...

Boulogne Dalliance

My father, John Martin, coming up to 18, joined the RAF within weeks of the declaration.He had been working...

Three Years in India

Between 1943-46, I was in the Royal Air Force in a RAF Maintenance Unit based in India... 20 to 30...

RAF Airfield Construction Units in Northern France

I REMEMBER…………………… Many people do not appreciate that not...

F/O Henry William Ellis DFM

On the way to his squadron that day his car, a red MG sports car, broke down and he had to leave...

With Fingers crossed

I had been posted to a R.A.F, station work-shops that was host to a Polish Fighter training school; however...

Nearly Bombed: A Wireless Operator / Observer in Deurne, Holland

Deprived of their launch sites in northern France the Germans used bases in Holland to attack probably the...

Build Your Own Air Raid Shelter

My father was in the local police and my sister worked for the Min.of Food at King's Hall in Stoke and...

Focke-Wulf Attack.

However, they were right, and I was about to witness my closest contact with the enemy, as a Focke-Wulf and...

My Family During the War by Edwin Russell Richardson

After training as a Rear Air Gunner on Lancasters, I served with 467 squadron of the Royal Australian Air...

Shot down in Siam - Postscript

While studying the programme for Christmas Day and deciding what we would do, we noticed that there would...

Bomber Command Heartbreak

George jointed Bomber Command in 1942 as an air gunner, based in Lincolnshire. Then on 5th July 1944, I got...

My Uncle Bill the Bomber Pilot: Royal Canadian Air Force

One of six sons and two daughters of a poor prairie doctor in Western Canada Uncle Bill was one of my...

We Heard On The Train

I was on coastal command on flying boats and I joined 210 Squadron at Pembroke Dock, then we moved to Poole...