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The point of my writing to you in this context is to point out that it was Goddard who was sent back...
In the weeks before D-Day, the unit was working day and night on a top secret project in a camouflaged...
I was given the job of orderly in the Officers’ Mess and was in charge of the tannoy and telephone...
In 1940 I was in the RAF stationed in Wiltshire, I was 19 at the time and hitchhiking my way back from...
As Squadron Leader I decided not to attack head-on but to come in from the side giving our six Hurricanes...
As the war was drawing to a close and the Allied Army was driving North through Holland they adopted a...
Our flight coincided with the last fateful flight of Major Glen Miller, the renowned American band leader,...
We were watching the dog-fighting going on, allied and German fighters battling it out in the sky above......
The only dry road through the village was occupied by the Germans so we stopped and a sergeant went to the...
I flew operations from RAF Tangmere in Typhoons during 1943-44, and subsequently moved to an advanced...
I was a Radio Technician and in total secrecy we had to adapt and install a transmitter and trailing aerial...
For the protection of spitfires on the ground,U shaped bays of earth were built of banks of earth about...
We were fitting winches on an Albermal aircraft used for towing Hotspur gliders training paratroopers when...
On D-Day he was sent to France with a ten-tonne lorry containing heavy radio equipment to transmit messages...
We also had an aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, and some Spitfires were carried halfway to Malta and then flown...
Jack Gillard, 2828 Squadron, RAF Regiment....
Snake valley was a 'flying boat' base crammed between the jungle and the sea near Mombasa in...
So he decided that I should have a solo check with the C.O. of B flight, Flying Officer Barry, who...
I joined the RAF in May 1940 having just completed my apprenticeship as a typewriter mechanic - the...
The only story I have heard about my father's war first-hand was from Group Captain Moreton Pinfold,...
I was the only member of the crew wounded and sent to Rauceby hospital in Slayford where I stayed for...
I was the only member of the crew wounded and sent to Rauceby hospital in Sleeford where I stayed for...
The crew were, from the left: G Forsey, L Lund,, A Moore,, R Davis,, J Thompson,, B Dawson,, and R Price,....
I was a pilot, one of two pilots in a crew of ten, flying a Liberator in 53 Squadron on an anti-U...
A long stooge over the North Sea tonight and not higher than 3000' all the way. We crossed the North...
"Although the atmosphere of impending invasion of France was constantly in evidence, a take-off at 4...
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