An early Nieuport I think!
This is a fairly well known photo, and given the high definition of the picture, i.e. it must have been taken close to the subject, it is probably a...
The Germans produced so many different types of two-seaters that even us aviation nuts would do well to have heard of all of them! The Rumpler...
Jock Cassels must have completed among the highest number of bombing operations. I wonder why he was never promoted above Squadron Leader? Maybe...
This was very interesting. The Antwerp Expedition was an absolute disaster. One of Churchill's ideas, the idea was to attack the German's flank and...
I've been building models since I was 11, and in the past they included WW2 aircraft kits. I now build model ships from scratch. But when my...
Keith I thought you meant the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and that this was an attempt at Lateral Thinking like mine with "Penicillin" (i.e....
penicillin?
We would be fascinated to know anything you care to tell us of you and your brother's service - units, ships, aircraft served in; any anecdotes....
Thanks, these make it a little clearer. I think the seat is missing from the Lancaster front turrets that I have seen (in the RAF Museum and the...
At first it was much more difficult than I thought it would be; we were both used to running the house the way we wanted (in my case that excluded...
I had heard that several crashes occurred there. The CWGC website lists 62 graves from WW2 at Takoradi. Some of these would have died from...
I know this thread is about dogs but I'm about to commit heresy as usual. In the "I'd like to know more about...." thread I forgot to mention one...
In the Dambuster aircraft, the bomb-aimer and the front gunner were at work simultaneously during the run-in. Presumably, the front gunner had...
The article says the aircraft was "deployed to active service" in 1944, but this is misleading. They may mean the date in which it was first...
Fascinating; there are not many ships of this pre-dreadnought era that can be examined. But I hope they respect it as a war grave
Wow! I can't top David for excitement! I've only made 34 parachute jumps, not 4000! But I agree that it would be great to know more about all of...
Takoradi, in Ghana (then known as the "Gold Coast") was mainly used as a staging post for aircraft being ferried from the United States via Brazil,...
It would have been just too unbearable to be seen wearing the same outfit twice! Slightly more seriously, German officers seconded to the Air...
David Clarabut - Telegraph David Clarabut, who has died aged 85, dive-bombed the Tirpitz and later rose to prominence in the City. Conditions...
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