Stories categorised in 'Lincolnshire'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
101 was a three-flight squadron, flying up to 24 Lancasters in the bomber stream, armed and loaded with...
For the next course, a private house called “Woodlands” close to Fighter Command H.Q. at...
Later that day I met the rest, so emerged the team of Pilot Sgt Barney Magee, RAAF, Navigator F/O Happy...
We had open coal fires in those days and in the winter evenings we would sit around the hearth and Mum...
After a short time spent at various stations in England we were “crewed — up” at Hixon,...
Mr William "Billy" Bates of Dawley, Shropshire , attended No 5 Course of 83 O.T.U. from October...
When the 2nd World War broke out in 1939, I was seventeen and working at Ticklers jam factory in Grimsby....
A scruffy London urchin, with no money, no family, and no education, becoming an officer and a gentleman....
Minnie did her own baking and the only meat was from the pig Gilbert killed twice a year... William was a...
We had strayed over the Channel Islands, which were under German control; fortunately our distress signal...
At the outbreak of war, my wife and daughter evacuated themselves back to my wife's home in...
I remember that the during some of these trips crashed RAF aircraft would be lying on the sand banks, most...
It was strictly a Court Martial offence for W.A.A.F. personnel to fly and although I had tried my hand at...
The Lincolnshire town of Spalding collected £3,560 during Warships Week in 1942 and bought HMS Taku...
The custom at R.A.F. bomber stations, to bring good luck for the raid, was that the Officers' Mess...
I was the only member of the crew wounded and sent to Rauceby hospital in Slayford where I stayed for...
I was the only member of the crew wounded and sent to Rauceby hospital in Sleeford where I stayed for...
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