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Peter Oliver. WW2 experiences as an RAF Publisher

Then eventually, after the Second Front opened up, because our medium bombers did a lot of bombing and...

IAN ADAMSON - WELLSPRING OF FREEDOM - 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON - THE WOODPECKERS

136 FIGHTER SQUADRON - THE WOODPECKERS - REST IN PEACE.....by FLT LT IAN ADAMSON................. The...

THE LUFTWAFFE ATTACK TREVOSE HEAD

It was in 1941 that the RAF Aerodrome at St Eval was so badly attacked from the air by German bombers that...

"A Lighter Shade of Pale Blue" Intoduction:

We were walking up a country lane, Whitefoot Lane, which ran alongside the 'Forster Memorial Park'...

Parachute training in India

As far as i know, there was'nt any enquiry into this accident, but i would assume the Officer would...

Foxton not Folkstone

The story starts with a Branch member, Stan Woofenden's long-standing interest in a wartime crash near...

Longstone Local History Group - Norman Hoare’s Story

A7887487 Roy Finney's Story: A7887784 Frank, A and S Hurst: A7888396 Flames of Sheffield: A7888657...

Wartime Memories

Once we were visited by Mr Churchill and a lady talking to Air Vice Marshal Park. From all the Fighter...

Foxton not Folkstone

The Foxton Crash By Mark Hudson The story starts with a Branch member, Stan Woofenden's long-standing...

Leo Doyle, Squadron Character!

The room at the end of the hut when we arrived was occupied by Leo Doyle -flight engineer and...

Spitfire Pilot, 92 Squadron, Desert Air Force (DAF), Italy (1944 — 1945): Chapter 9

Sub Hunting

He was then posted across the Atlantic Ocean on the Old Queen Mary, a boat too fast for any submarine to...

Feeling Unwanted

Brooklands had a contract with the RAF Coastal Command Flying Training School at Blackpool airport, which...

Manchester Bombers

We arrived at last in Naples to find the Unit we had been sent to was an Army Unit — we were...

622 Squadron-En route to Stuttgart

F/Lt R.G. Allen and crew lifted off the runway at RAF Mildenhall in Lancaster GI-J LL885 at 21.55 hrs en...

One Man's War -Part 35: July 24, 1945 -- December 15, 1945 Final Days Of The War! Part Four

Regardless of what direction the Japanese originated their attack one of the Navy sections would see the...

Blackouts in Burton

I was sat in the dentist chair, when all of a sudden we heard the whistle of a falling bomb. The Catalina...

GORDON CONWAY'S TALES FROM THE WOODPECKERS - 136 FIGHTER SQUADRON IN CEYLON 1942.

Shortly after this Connie and his close friends, fellow pilots Joe Edwards from Canada and Viv Jacobs from...

My experience in the R.A.F.

A short stay in Durban prior to a three day train journey to Bulawayo,Rhodesia. Yet another transit camp...

How I became a navigator

We had to subject ourselves to various inoculations, do a bit of drill, and maths tests, before being...

692 Squadron, Light Night Striking Force - Mr. Harry Hughes

Interviewees - Mr. Edward ‘Ted’ Stocker, DSO, Air Commodore Gerry Bennington, Mr. Reg Cann, Mr....

Bale out!

As the Lancaster sustained a series of hits from the attacking fighter, Squadron Leader Garlick called...

My R.A.F.Experience

A short stay in Durban prior to a three day train journey to Bulawayo,Rhodesia. Yet another transit camp...

The Plane Truth!

I started off in a Tiger Moth, and then went onto a Dominie, then a Proctors, then into Avro Ansons, then...

Unauthorised flight to rescue POWs in Bangkok

We arrived at Bangkok just before six o'clock in the morning we taxied in to the hangars and there were...

Hazards of Aircrew Training

A rooky pilot and crew invariably flew a clapped out Wellington, Whitley or Hampden twin-engined bomber,...