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Cliff Gascoigne's Desert Experience 4

We were likely to get sand storms at our ‘drome so, once again I was nominated to go with the...

2nd & 3rd 1000 Plane Bomber Raids & capture by the Germans

Several weeks later the Germans decided to re-open a camp called Stalag Luft to which, being smaller and...

Memeories of RAF B25s

"Its May 1995, and I am lying in bed, thinking of all the urgent tasks to be performed that day, such...

Driving in the WAAFs

At this time the WAAF driver's were even doing the Davy Brown tractors towing the bombs to each...

DUEL IN THE NIGHT SKY

I was about to tell the crew we would probably be unable to bomb Dusseldorf and would attack the...

Donald Cave in the RAF

I was in the RAF as aircrew flying in Wellington bombers. We were asked to train some members of the French...

A Dedication to Skipper Wing Commander Ted Porter - 'A Navigator's View of the Route to Heaven'

As fledging crew members are taught how to carry out their particular duties in the aircraft, so we are...

Memories of Royal Air Force B25s

Yes, its near VE Day, and I am suddenly Corporal Ray Mitchell - Radio Technician, working on those lean and...

Civilian Sparks in Wartime RAF

We were mostly on call 24 four hours a day, 7 days a week and were responsible for changing the runway...

FITTER ON 'J' FOR JOHNNIE (3)

It's been like a Cook's tour". "I shouldn't light up, if I were you, Doug" I said...

RAF: 219 Squadron

219 Squadron was re-formed as a night fighter squadron at RAF Catterick in October, 1939, under the command...

Desert Rats and Pyramids

On one particular night we could hear the German bombers coming over and they started dropping bombs on our...

Tour of Operations

992 aircraft attacked Dusseldorf of which 11 Halifaxes and 8 Lancasters were lost. This crew completed...

Joining the RAF as a wireless operator Chapter 1

William Baxter RAF Serial Number - 1449088. It had one type of every aircraft in the RAF for carrying out...

Lucky Me! (Part One)

In August of 1938 I went to the Recruiting Office in Manchester for a medical and exam to join the R.A.F....

RAMBLINGS FROM HAPPISBURGH

On leaving Yatesbury, on Christmas Eve 1941,1 was posted to Happisburgh, pronounced Haisboro, a CHL/GCI...

The End of the War

By now my wife, Sylvia was at home in Grimsby so I went off to see her and during my absence our...

Tea Time Canterbury

My Father had told me that the aircraft were FW 190s, “Jabo” fighter bombers, we understood...

MY TWO UNKNOWN RAF 61 SQUADRON 5 GROUP AIRCREW CHAPTER 2

The Manchester 16x12 photograph-print of the Avro Manchester group of 61 Squadron with George and Cam in it...

Something to tell the grandchildren about (part 3)

I was very friendly with a chap - Phil Waldon - he was a lovely looking fellow, more or less the same...

Working life of a young boy on war work

The main hanger used to hold 23 Lancasters, this was absolutely amazing, not including the wings the...

My Air Ambulance experience in the WAAF

From Yatesbury I was sent to Collerton Cross RAF base near Plymouth... We could also see Catalina...

Arthur J Williams RAF 1941 to 1946.

Calato was a small runway built by the German and Italian occupying forces just down the road from Lindos....

Rugby and flying at last (Owen Cleaver 4)

We went out again on detachment to an RAF camp Heaney which was about 15 miles outside Bulowayo it was an...

Saved by the Bell

The man, Andre who helped carry me to safety was the bell ringer at the only church, Saint Evre, in the...

RAF Regiment — Sgt Charles Carmichael — Part 1

I have been piecing together my grandfather's war service with the RAF Regiment from his Form 543A and...