[Battle of Britain | London, England | CPC] Winston Churchill visited RAF Kenley in southern London, England, United Kingdom. [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]24 Aug 1940 United Kingdom Before dawn, the London Blitz began as a misguided group of German bombers of KG1 unloaded...
In the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force known as the RAF defeated the German Air Force, known as the Luftwaffe. As a result, Hitler halted his plan to invade Britain. By 1941, the US Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act which provided aid to Great Britain. In June 1941, Hitler ...
RAF Air/Sea Rescue Coastal Command Back to Top TRAINING Land Bases UK Combined Ops Training Bases Middle East Combined Training Centre, Kabret, Egypt (HMS Saunders). Signals Training at Kabret. Operation Tiger Disaster No 1 Combined Training Centre, Inveraray. ...
Grandads RAF Service Records Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help qith understanding my grandads RAF service records. It is slightly hard to read due to the handwriting and... Thread by:Caitlin,Mar 25, 2024, 34 replies, in forum:Service Records ...
formed in 1914 to set more men free for front line service. She had served in the ranks before becoming an officer, and was known to be an authority on dogs. Before being selected to head the WAAF she had been commanding a RAF Company of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Beneath...
Death cert here https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp cost £11 you wont find her service records on the internet so please don pay any site for said information. RAF Syerston - Wikipedia regards Clive CL1, Dec 3, 2019 #2 Tony56, Dave55 and Tricky Dicky like...
Bader had joined the RAF in 1928 and in 1931, while performing some aerobatics he crashed and lost both his legs. When war broke he insisted on flying, even as a double amputee. His determination saw him become a Battle of Britain icon using a “Big Wing” of fighters to attack enemy...
Jerome Lee of the Military & History Museum at Chaguaramas in Trinidad provided excellent and extensive records of Trinidadians who enlisted in the RAF. Researcher Audrey Dewjee in the UK made many valued contributions too. Seeing the increasing amount of information, but at the same time realis...
Feel free to copy them and post them here on your site. 2019-02-11 21:49:41 +01:00 Krystyna Thompson Good evening, My father was a Polish Pilot flying with the Polish sector of the RAF during WW2. He flew a Wellington Bomber and was shot down over Holland on the 19th June 41....
Inspired as you are by an RCAF uncle who died serving with 'Preston's Own' RAF, I studied 78 Sqdn in depth and in great detail until about 15 years. I have a copy of the sqdn's operational records on microfilm, much of which I have transcribed. Over the course of 10 years in the...