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17th February 2021, 09:42

Resmoroh started a thread POW - A Few More Missing Details (mainly Forenames) in General Category

Hello All, A few more missing/wrong details from the POW s/sheet just to keep you out of mischief if you would be so kind. DANIELS L...

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22nd February 2021, 14:43

Resmoroh started a thread POW ETO Google-sheet Missing data in General Category

Hello All, There are, currently, 14072 Rows of data on the ETO POW experimental Google-sheet. The last 5-digit a/c s/n is Z9824. This is at Row...

21 replies | 278 view(s)

2nd February 2021, 16:46

Peter Garwood started a thread Form 543 Abbreviation Query on R.D.U. and Time Forfeited-was he always in trouble? in General Category

I am struggling to work out what my airman got up to between 25.2.1941 and 20.1.1942. I have spent an entire afternoon trying to find out how to...

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6th February 2021, 16:39

Ian Brown started a thread service record abbreviations in General Category

I've received the service record of a Boy Entrant Wireless Operator Mechanic, who was commissioned in 1940 but there are a few abbreviations that are...

13 replies | 247 view(s)

26th February 2021, 15:39

Robbo1966 started a thread Avro Manchester crash landing Fowlmere nr Duxford in General Category

A neighbour of mine has surprised me by producing a photo of an Avro Manchester possibly laying on its belly on the edge of Fowlmere Airfield and the...

11 replies | 237 view(s)

28th February 2021, 20:11

John Williams started a thread Sgt FIIE in General Category

Hi All, We have on our records a Sgt post to to instructor school ( unfit to fly) but on our records as Sgt FIIE anyone got any ideas what that...

12 replies | 152 view(s)

4th February 2021, 12:30

Fiona@Goodwins started a thread Lost Aircrew Goodwin Sands area East Kent UK in General Category

I am a Trustee of Goodwin Sands Conservation Trust and a campaign coordinator for Goodwin Sands SOS. We are trying to locate relatives of the many...

8 replies | 252 view(s)

6th February 2021, 16:18

CZ_RAF started a thread What a RCAF ex-PoW would do after return to the UK? in General Category

Hi all, what was the common procedure with a RCAF airman who has returned to the UK from the captivity in May 1945? Was he posted back to his former...

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14th February 2021, 09:51

Mikkel Plannthin started a thread RAF at Bergen-Belsen in 1945? in General Category

Some of the Danish volunteers in the RAF that I am researching served in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch and was working with...

7 replies | 210 view(s)

21st February 2021, 14:05

ianh started a thread Roles of Hurricanes and Spitfires in the BoB - Spitfire Snobbery? in General Category

Hi all I've just seen on a FB page a couple of people repeating the comment that in the BoB 'Hurricanes were sent to attack the bombers, while...

7 replies | 192 view(s)

10th February 2021, 14:48

missouriguy started a thread I have a book that belonged to a 226 Squadron Pilot - Trying to locate him or family in General Category

Basically, this is what the title says. This book belonged to a JFL Morton. He was a Blenheim crewmember who ended up in the Stalag III camp. I...

9 replies | 248 view(s)

24th February 2021, 07:38

Leendert started a thread Lysander pilots Clarkson and Dowding - Egypt - 1944 - first names sought in General Category

From May 1944 on F/Lt Clarkson and F/Lt Dowding flew an RAF Lysander on anti-malaria spraying duties in Egypt. Looking for their first names. Info...

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16th February 2021, 18:43

wwrsimon started a thread A few queries about details of two V-1 shoot downs in General Category

Hello everyone On August 25th 1944, Robert Clive Stockburn of 501 Sqn shot down a V-1 'Diver' near Rye in Tempest EJ599 SD-W. The Combat Report...

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1st February 2021, 17:30

Resmoroh started a thread Missing Forenames - Again in General Category

Hello All, Another tranche and then I’ll give it a rest. WILLIAMS H 0 1944-01-30 Sgt RAF 405 Sqdn 1535229 L1 1351 JA924 JONES T W...

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19th February 2021, 18:16

Steve Smith started a thread German intruders over UK February 1945 in General Category

Hi, Was there any German intruder operations over England in February 1945? TIA Steve

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21st February 2021, 01:22

JDCAVE started a thread Operational Research in Bomber Command in General Category

This is a crunchy little nugget! Operational Research in Bomber Command by Basil Dickens! ...

6 replies | 234 view(s)

3rd February 2021, 02:35

mndoss06 started a thread Flt Lt Fred S. Copestake DFC, DFM-Navigator who flew 109 missions, need more info in General Category

Hello All! I'm looking for whatever information I can get on Flt Lt Fred S. Copestake, DFC, DFM (184113). I have his khaki summer uniform in my WWII...

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6th February 2021, 18:42

PNK started a thread Audax K5215 and Oxford P1852 - Which units in 1941? in General Category

I was looking at the IWM film in the link below and spotted the Audax diving on what looked like a target at around 6:19 minutes in. The unit with...

6 replies | 153 view(s)

9th February 2021, 22:51

PeteT started a thread PathFinder Force in General Category

Does anyone know if there was an AMO (or similar) issued when the PathFinder Force was established which set out its role and the terms and...

6 replies | 246 view(s)

2nd March 2021, 15:42

Ian Brown started a thread HP Halifax crash 27 August 1944 Pembrokeshire in General Category

Hi, A Halifax crashed near the GCI radar station at Ripperston in Pembrokeshire at 11pm on 27 August 1944. The radar station had not seen any SOS...

6 replies | 38 view(s)

1st February 2021, 16:22

SteveBrooking started a thread Aircraft obsolescence in General Category

I am trying to find out the procedures in the AM/RAF for dealing with aircraft obsolescence. I am hoping there might be some knowledge out there...

6 replies | 227 view(s)

25th February 2021, 18:35

Marks started a thread 4-1-1946 Dakota KN363 243 Sqn Crash in General Category

4 January 1946 Dakota IV KN363 243 Sqn ditched off Hainan Island, South China Sea Four crew and two passengers rescued. Three passengers...

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28th February 2021, 15:54

robstitt started a thread Sqn Ldr Donald Garth Ross 32161 and General Duties in General Category

Found a similar 2006 post by myself in the archives... http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/09325.php .... but provided more background here... The...

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19th February 2021, 00:03

Welshbob started a thread Fire extinguishers also a question on beam approach abbreviation in General Category

Hi all Does anyone know what WW2 RAF No. 3 and No. 5 manual fire extinguishers were designed to extinguish? EG fuel, electrical or are they...

6 replies | 158 view(s)

18th February 2021, 18:19

HughAHalliday started a thread No.9 SFTS Incident, 16 October 1941. in General Category

In the process of transcribing unpublished citations for awards, I am puzzled by a recommendation to Leading Aircraftman Handrione Phillippas ...

6 replies | 139 view(s)

12th February 2021, 15:05

Fred J Crawley started a thread Propaganda Leaflet Belgium 1941 in General Category

Hello, hoping someone can advise me on this question? My late father during 1941 as wireless operator flew with 1419 (S/Op) Flight from RAF Newmarket...

6 replies | 138 view(s)

7th February 2021, 05:23

anglin.mj started a thread 'Nachtjagd War Diaries' Vol II (Boiten/Mackenzie) 3/4 Mar 45 in General Category

Hello, Hoping someone has this book and can help me out with regards to night fighter activity that night. I’m aware of the 2 claims...

5 replies | 223 view(s)

12th February 2021, 19:38

CZ_RAF started a thread Flights of RAF aircraft from Tain to Norway in June 1945 in General Category

Hi all, I have found a vague information in Daily Order of 311 Squadron based in Tain about flights to Norway (Oslo?). As there are different ranks...

5 replies | 172 view(s)

6th February 2021, 12:23

paulmcmillan started a thread RCAF Pilot F/Lt EH Fairfield J20018 443 Sqn in General Category

Can anyone fully ID this pilot on 443 Sqn in 1944 he was on Spitfire MJ444 which on 443S 14-12-44 Hit by flak and abandoned nr St.Vith 18-1-45 he...

5 replies | 161 view(s)

4th February 2021, 17:03

JDCAVE started a thread Goch, February 7, 1945 in General Category

I have completed essays on all of Dad's ops for 1944 and now turn to resume essays for the rest of his tour (Dortmund, Feb 20; Pforzheim Feb 23 and...

5 replies | 158 view(s)

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