NEW
LM338 PO-U |
The memoirs of F/O R.E.Peck.
WOP in Len Ainsworth Crew........At the outbreak of the World War
II I was 17 years old and along with other young chaps around Narara,
near Gosford on the central coast of New South Wales, we talked
of joining up in the Forces. I didn’t want to go into the
Army as Dad had told me terrible tales of life in the trenches and
the waste of life during WW I, so I thought the Airforce was the
thing for me, you flew over everything and didn’t have to
slog through mud etc.
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| A
True Tale |
This story is as reported
by war correspondant A.W.V. King after hitching a ride with W.A. Forbes
on a berlin raid. He describes the view of the raid, the coolness
of the crew, and G-George, the Lancaster. |
| 57
Year Mystery |
On the night of 28/29 January
1944, a crew of young lads took off from Waddington in the Midlands
of England to attack the King of Targets, Berlin. The Lancaster never
returned and it was not untill 57 years later that the remains of
the crash were found. |
| The
Loss of a Pilot |
The friendship between a
pilot and ground crew was very common. This ground crew member lost
his pilot with whom he had become good friends. |
| Army
to Air Force |
This story has been told
by Ron Evans, family historian and son of Ted Evans, a Mid Upper Gunner
with 463 Squadron. It includes some excellent historical pictures. |
| Landing
Lancasters Backwards |
F/O A.
Belford is the only person credited with the feat of landing a Lancaster
backwards. |
| Story
of Coincidence |
John Dack was shot down
on a raid to the Docks at Flushing. He was rescued by a German soldier
and they met through coincidence many years later. |
| Foe
to Friend |
The story as seen by John
Dack relating to his rescue and subsequent internment. |
| Froggies
Under Bombing |
Yves Fohlen, a Frenchman,
has emailed to the site some comments from French People who experienced
the bombing during WWII. |
| Eyewitness
Account of a Lancaster Crash |
As
a 14 year old Swiss boy, Frédéric Haldimann witnessed the crash in
the Alps of 467 Squadron’s Lancaster ED531 PO-T on the Turin raid
of 12/13 July 1943. Substantiated
with meteorological information, historical facts and his personal
memories, Frédéric tells the sequence of events and gives his views
as to exactly what caused the aircraft to crash that night. |
| Sink
the Tirpitz |
The Tirpitz was a battle
ship that was a great menace to the Allied shipping. Many attempts
to sink her had been made. This story tells of the successful attack
witnesed by Bruce Buckham DSO DFC. |
| UK
War Bride |
Joyce Edgerly related this
story to one of the popular magazines. I followed up the story and
eventually got to meet Joyce in person. |
| War
Tonight |
The wartime experiences
of Lawrence William McGowen.........On my 18th birthday
I obtained an application form to join the RAAF and forwarded it to
my father for his consent to my application. |
| From
a Grand Daughter |
The grand daughter of F/S
S.D. Jolly who was a Bomb Aimer in P/O C. Dickson's crew. Her feelings
and her emotions certainly show in this short tale. |
| Wireless/Airgunner
Diary |
This is the complete diary
of Jack Stevens, a wireless air gunner with 463 Squadron. |
| Eddie
Foster Story |
Tells of the life on the
squadrons by Eddie Foster. |
| Rear
Gunner Story |
An account from the view
point of a rear gunner. This story is scanned from a typed text and
is in JPEG panels. |
| Dame
Sans Merci |
Dear friends,
The story of " Dame sans
merci " still intrigues me. There is a picture in a Flemish-Belgian
book in the chapter " Crash at the brickworks in Langemark"
relating the May 1944 crash.......... |
| A
Diving Find |
Whilst on a diving excursion
some divers from Germany found the remains of a Lancaster from 463
Squadron in a lake. |
| Don
Wills Story |
Don Wills was a rear gunner
with Pilot K. Tanner on 463 Squadron |
| The
Last Flight of |
The last flight of Lancaster
DV396 PO-B...... On the evening of the 2nd
November 1944, on their 10th operation to Dusseldorf,
after they had just commenced their return journey they were attacked
by an enemy aircraft. |
| Our
Longest Day |
D Day 6th June
1944 has been referred to in books and films as "The Longest
Day". For our Lancaster crew it was indeed a long day. |
| Navigator's
Story |
I've taped a few chats with
my grandfather Bill Gall, and have cut and pasted the parts referring
to his war service, for your website. I hope it's not too hard to
follow. Being a purist, I typed it up as closely to the way Pop talks...... |
| One
Man's Journey |
During
my life I have heard of many great journeys, like the great
Antarctica
explorers, or the journey
of Captain Cook but there is nothing that I’d rather write about than
the great journey of my grand father, Harry Howard. |
| One
Survivor |
In
the weeks before the D-Day landing in Normandy, the allies bomb every
communication means that the Germans could use to send reinforcements
against the bridge-head. |
| Last
Flight of PD259 |
When I first spotted, on
p.250, in Nobby Blundell’s ‘463 History’, the entry of P/O W. A. Graham
A413988 and that he was buried in Dalton-in-Furness cemetery I was
curious as to why an Aussie should be buried only 3 miles from my
home-town of Barrow-in-Furness. |
| R.Kingsford-Smith |
Extract from the Memoirs of Rollo Kingsford-Smith written for his
family and a few friends. Permission to reproduce this section of
the works has been given by Rollo Kingsford-Smith. |
| V1
Menace |
The ever increasing threat
of the V1 Rockets targeted on London and the Home Counties..... |
| Tonsberg
Raid |
467 Sq sent 14 a/c and 463
Sq 14 a/c to join 107 Lancasters and 12 marker Mosquitos of 5 Group
attacking the oil refinery and U boat fuelling depot in this town
in Southern Norway. |
| Shoot
The Train |
This is a true story of
an incident during World War II which was not reported, but was known
and although not authenticated cannot be disproved after all these
years. |
| V-Vic
Last Flight |
The Air Crews at Waddington
awakened on the 28th July 1944 to a typical English Summer morning.
Naturally their thoughts turned to the prime question of the day -
Would it be 'Peace' or 'War'? |
