Courtesy: Joe Baugher The Royal Air Force was supplied with a total of 830 P-47Ds. In RAF service, the “razorback” P-47D was known as the Thunderbolt I and the “bubble canopy” P-47D was known as Thunderbolt II. Thunderbolt Is were…
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Hawker “Dodo” – The flightless Hurricane
Gladiator K6150 Crash – 70 years later..(almost)
Group Captain A. F. Anderson
Wing Commander Frank Geoffrey Woolley, D.F.C., A.F.C (105174)
Beaufighter T4746 – “Failed to Return” 12 April 1942
By Stephen Adler – 12 August 2015 Max Addess in RAF uniform, and his sister Nina in 1941 My uncle Max Addess, a pilot with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, went missing in action on 12 April 1942 together…
70 Years ago today – The crash of Mosquito KB416
Seventy Years ago, Today, 3rd July 1945, De Havilland Mosquito KB416 , of No.627 Squadron crashed at RAF Woodhall Spa. The pilot Flt Lt D N Johnson was attempting to forceland after the misfiring of one of the engines.. A series…
Corporal Felice Helga Poser – The only women Caterpillar Club member in WW2
Only one airwoman received the coveted Caterpillar badge during the war – Corporal F.H. Poser, who jumped from 600 feet while serving with a meteorological unit in the Middle East. This is Corporal Felice Helga Poser 2025650 who was originally…
A POW’s memoir – Plt Offr Kenneth McKellar White (Rangoon 1942)
By Hugh Halliday Letter written by P/O Kenneth McKellar White (RAAF) respecting loss of Hudson AE523, No.62 Squadron, 9 September 1942. Precisely how this came to reach his family (and authorities) is unclear, but a copy ended up in the…
Martin Arthur Thornhill 1922 ‐ 1944
Jeremy Halliday, cousin of Flt Sgt M A Thornhill, who died in the shooting down of Lancaster ND352 has put together a document that contains details about Martin Thornhill and the correspondence between the Government and his family regarding his loss.…