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Tour of Operations -8

Allocated aircraft AS-D Bomb Load 1 x 4000 Ib Cookie plus incendiaries. Allocated aircraft AS-M Bomb Load...

AIRMAN CHARLES MARSHALL BECOMES POW

Just "Well done"

The Wireless Operator put the I.F.F. on to Stud 3 and sent out an S.O.S. and a message to the effect that...

FROM BEGONIAS TO BOMBERS

A word about the test's — these were held in a converted ballroom above Burtons the tailors,...

catherine horne

Our Group Captain at RAF Banff was Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook's son and the owner of the Daily...

Bail Out 25th November 1944

Dinner and a chance to buy English cigarettes, a walk around the town and a few drinks despite the rain...

AMERICAN ADVENTURE, WW2 STYLE

We began flying almost immediately in the Stearman biplane trainer built by Boeing. The station operated...

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

They had the wartime boys that went in on - they brought - I don't know where they brought the Pilots...

The Big Retreat

After Singapore then the Japanese turned their attention to the Dutch East Indies. After a short space of...

The British Flying Training Schools in the U.S.A. 1941-1944

Three USAAF Aviation Cadets also were killed, and five civilian instructors including Henry Jerger, the...

A Heroic Mystery WAAF

The crew had completed twenty-two training flights flying Stirling bombers at 1657CU based at Stradishall,...

Flight Operations carried out by Sgt. D.C. Plaunt

8 aircraft attacked the town and all but one crew saw the marker bombs... One aircraft bombed a last...

Parasite Drag

We were a motley crew with pilots as varied as the aircraft we were flying — Auster 3’s and...

Vying for Radar Supremacy

Garrard had laid down three main requirements for Supper's section: first, the collection of labels off...

Catering during WW2

Here I was with the 6th Group Bomber Command of the RCAF ~ other stations in the Group being Topcliffe,...

Operation Dresden

In my tour of 30 operations as a Lancaster pilot with 619 Squadron, Bomber Command, many raids are now a...

Fooling the Germans about their Enigma code

At Trowbridge we had to become familiar with the wireless procedures of our enemies, and in particular...

My War Effort-Ann Kidd

Eventually I was to leave Magdalene College for another posting back to radio school RAF Compton Bassett...

From Boston to Bonn

In September 1944 we crossed the English channel in a landing craft and became part of the British...

Stuttgart and Back

Ijoined the RAF as an aircaft apprentice in 1938,studied aeroengines after passing out in 1942 I...

Cat

We made our circuit and swung in towards the flare-path down with the grace of a swooping gull - effortless...

H E JACOBSON

The only major maintenance unit in the 2nd T.A.F. with aircraft engine Test benches, two for Roils Royce...

Charlie's War

No brakes” I yelled not knowing the intercom was on and the VHF on “transmit, there wasn't...

In the Royal Observer Corps

We lost 33 bombers April - Several air raid alerts Kings Walden Parish April 24th - German bomber shot down...

The Tent Saga and Other Memories

I was stationed at an airfield in Essex and there was a lot of preparations going on with Horsa Gliders...

Flying Supplies

With 267 Squadron in Burma you did not fly on a rigid system of belonging to a crew, you flew when and...