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Coltishall (and Bader

In July 1940 after 14days recruit training at Blackpool including firing 15 rounds on the rifle range we...

Part Two - Test Flight Crash

Protecting myself against the outside weather conditions as best as I was able, I put on my sunglasses and...

HOW NOT TO POLISH A FLOOR Part 1

At the end of July 1940 I was posted to Weeton near Blackpool as an RAF physical training instructor......

Flight Operations carried out by Sgt. J.J. Johnson

Two aircraft and crews have failed to return from this operation they are JB227J F/L Munro DFC and crew and...

W/O Tim Nelson B.E.M. RAF career & WW2 experiences

We had five helicopters there… Sycamores! and they were wooden blades and when you put them in the...

353 squadron

Though I had expected to be posted to a flying job but non-operational I was told this was not to be as...

Head in the Clouds

The next stage was to go on to four-engine aircraft at No.1660 Conversion Unit at RAF Swinderby, picking up...

Realising the stupidity of war

The holding camp was called ACDC which meant Air Crew Despatch Centre and was in Heaton Park...

trivia

I left my home in Nottingham about Christmas 1937 on a rail voucher to Birmingham, to enlist in the RAF, I...

Memories of My Time as R.A.F. Ground Staff 1940 - 1941 by Leslie Landells

Then I was posted to R.A.F. Bassingbourne on general duties, some of which included guarding the airfield...

Pathfinder Operation - Part 2

We were never told officially or given any explanation whatsoever, but we soon learned through other airmen...

AIRMAN CHARLES MARSHALL PICTURE

TALES FROM SQUADRON LIFE - GORDON CONWAY FLYING WITH 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON - THE WOODPECKERS — EPISODES AT DUMDUM 1942

TALES FROM SQUADRON LIFE - GORDON CONWAY FLYING WITH 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON - THE WOODPECKERS —...

Halifax Crash

We had originally crewed up with Geoff at RAF Kinloss on Whitley twin engine bombers but required a Flight...

LAC Stevens's memories of the Far East - Part Two

Our planes got through to Rangoon and the Army got through to Rangoon but we, as individuals, were...

Being A Lancaster Pilot And Trainer

Unfortunately, Harold missed his daughter Judith's christening when he was stranded at Jiwani in...

Boy Entrant W/Op-Part 3

By the time I got to Colombo a lot of the high speed W/T Morse circuits had converted to Radio Teleprinter...

Biography and War stories of a Pilot in the Far East 1945-46

Just before the war ended on the 5th of August 1945, we, 31 Squadron were withdrawn from the action in...

1st 1000 plane bomber raid, Cologne, 30th /31st May 1942

Flying across to the North Sea aircraft checks are carried out and over the water the gunners can...

A SUMMER EVENING IN ITALY

Pathfinder Halifaxes lay shattered in distant places in flights as far afield as France, Germany,...

A Night to Remember

With the advent of the “Heavies” Manchester and Lancaster I was appointed Sergeant in charge of...

Tour of Operations

They need not have worried because I received instructions to proceed immediately to 20 OTU Lossiemouth, At...

RECOLLECTIONS AND MY JOURNEY WITH R.A.F. 1943-1944

However, it was now full of Japanese prisoners, who were captured at the fall of Singapore... I received...

I was there

Charlie”, our skipper, assembled us in the ward room and put everyone in the picture, that is those...

I was there

Charlie”, our skipper, assembled us in the ward room and put everyone in the picture, that is those...

Crashlanding!

My father, John Norman Jenkinson of Louth in Lincolnshire, served in the RAF during WWII —...