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Lancaster Bombers 626 Squadron

My husband Bill Edwards was a flight sergeant with the 626 squadron Lancaster Bombers. The crew consisted...

Teaching Radio in South Africa

My father, now deceased, spent most of the war as a RAF sergeant in South Africa. He had learnt to be a...

'A Quiet House Close to Green Fields'

She also met some heroes of the RAF, inluding I believe Richard Hillary and Bob Stanford Tuck. My...

The Lancaster Crash at Thurnby Lodge, Leicester

In 1944/5 although I was a pupil at the City Boy's Leicester I had joined the Wyggeston Boys branch of...

Mission Accomplished

The combined RAF/American Army Air Force offensive against Germany and targets in Occupied Europe was in...

First British Airman to fly over Germany in WW2

The cousin of my grandmother, Mollie Harris, John Jonas Arthur Sutton was a Wing Commander in the R.A.F...

Intrigue

SOE Operation to Norway on 29/11/1944. Pilot gives orders to abandon aircraft owing to engines...

AWOL in Warrington

Unfortunately, I was too late for the Sergeants check of the quarters, and I was posted as AWOL. I had to...

Wading Through the Snow to Get the Keys!

Most of the time I was cooking for the Airman, but on this station I was cooking for the WAAFs. The WAAFs...

Secret Messages: An RAF Teleprinter Operator

Our remit was to listen to messages from Berlin and Madrid - everything was in code so we took the messages...

RICHARD COBBLEDICK'S 19th BIRTHDAY

My father, Richard Cobbledick, was a farm worker in Devon in 1939 and at age 18 volunteered for service in...

My Dad

I had a younger brother who was from my Mum's marriage to my step-father... It was hard for Mum when he...

Dropping Food to the Dutch

Although the Germans had been marooned up in North West Holland there was an acute shortage of food for the...

Friend or Foe?

He was in Bomber Command, fellow called Jim Giffin... For at that time the Germans were dropping people in...

Bomber Command (12/100/625 Sqdn)

He served in Bomber Command as a Wireless Operator/Airgunner in World War 2 and completed the full...

Mr John Bolton, Banbury / Felixtowe

Mr Bolton was born and raised in Banbury Oxfordshire... He stayed in the RAF for another six months,...

Weather Report

I heard a talk here in Wolverhampton by the retired meteorologist Ian McCaskill, describing how his...

First of my stories "Into the fire"

After basic training at Morecambe, I was posted to FILTON on ground defence of the Bristol Air-craft Works...

North Cotes Airfield, Lincolnshire

During World War Two there was an RAF Airfield at North Cotes, Lincolnshire. There are more than 30 Allied...

Canadian Hospitality

Like a previos contributor, I visited Winnipeg en route to Rivers Air Force Navigators Training Depot, and...

Where's the Pilot Gone?

He dashed to the rear of the cabin, opened the window in the door and spent the next 20-30 minutes being...

Winged Chariots -Part 11: Stung By A Mosquito?

Winged Chariots -Part 11: Stung By A Mosquito. Herman Goering — in addition to being peeved by...

A Different Airforce

A few weeks after D Day my Dad, serving in the R.A.F. found himself stationed in Holland and made friends...

Passing Out in the RAF

Ronald Bennett joined the RAF on 30th January 1946 and was stationed at Kimbolton, Bedfordshire. Doris and...

Hamilton Cowan and Von Ribbentrop

In 1938 as a16 year old golf enthusiast I was asked to caddy for a gentleman at scrabo golf club...

Fitters

People may remember Stan for sneaking out of the base on his motorbike through a hole in the perimeter...