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Without doubt the most important crew member in a Bomber Command aircraft was the navigator; if you did not...
Soon after Christmas, the officers organised a dance to be held in the Banqueting Hall in Madras for the...
From April until June 1944, I learned the basic science and practice of photography at the RAF No 1 School...
When Meg returned to Nantwich, she found herself living very near to my father, Jay Johnson, who had digs...
Perhaps the first thing we noticed after gazing with awe at the Stearman aircraft on the 鈥淟ine鈥...
Brockhouse Engineering then Wales At this stage, two years into the war, the aircraft industry was short of...
The story of F/O Bill Jeavons, Pilot, P/O Dougie Warwick, Navigator, Sgt. Nick Carter, Flight Engineer, Sgt...
On 28 May, I was approached and asked if I would do one more mission with Flying Officer Harry Smith's...
In his determination 鈥渢o get back at Jerry for taking my brother,鈥 and impatient to confront...
Five personnel would already have formed a crew and would have completed flying training on two engined...
On the 27th April Bills log shows that he and the crew had their first flight at No 2 Multi Engine Training...
We flew in a formation of 40 Mosquitos to attack German shipping in Porsgrunn Harbour in Norway. Ron was...
The 鈥榳eights up to maximum鈥 was arrived at by taking the basic 鈥榯are鈥 weight of the...
In 1991 I accompanied George on a trip across Australia from Perth to Sidney in the Gipsy Moth to attend...
The Squadron aircraft were Spitfire Vs and I was expected to fly an aircraft up to the new base. So the...
At the Stavanger Hospital, in which all the nurses were Norwegian, the top two floors were serviced by...
Over the next 4 years I visited my grandmother Jean as often as I could, sometimes with my wife and...
101 was a three-flight squadron, flying up to 24 Lancasters in the bomber stream, armed and loaded with...
Hampden AE392 of 144 Squadron was shot down by L眉th off the North German coast. F/Lt Kingston, Sgt R....
The Russian P.O.Ws, hated by the Germans, had to survive on the rations they provided, which was less than...
Later that day I met the rest, so emerged the team of Pilot Sgt Barney Magee, RAAF, Navigator F/O Happy...
Such searches were not conducted by soldiers, but by the Italian police who were, so we were told, the...
We arrived in Bulawayo, and as there was only limited number of places at the elementary flying training...
Introductory note This is the first part of a personal memoir of my experiences, discoveries and beliefs...
A third plane was supposed to have crashed in the Great Belt outside Kors酶r on the same night as the...
Posted to Aircrew Despatch Centre, Heaton Park, Manchester....
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