Telegraph Obituary: Already a veteran of 31 bombing raids over Germany, Jenner joined No 159 Squadron in October 1942 and flew one of the unit’s new American-built, four-engine Liberator bombers to Aqir in Palestine. Over the next few weeks he bombed shipping and port installations in Greece and on the North African coast, including at Tobruk, Benghazi and Tripoli. During [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Eric Brown must rank as the most extraordinary airman alive. Indeed, open his memoirs at any page and you are left asking a single question: how on earth did this modest Scotsman live to tell the tale? But Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RN is very much alive and in sparkling form as he pours me a [...]
Philip Lamb left his home in Bermuda in 1943 to answer the call of King and country, joining the RAF at a time when German V1 and V2 rockets were raining down on Britain. He was injured in an air-raid and, after recovering, undertook missions in Europe searching for unexploded mines. The last of the black Bermudians who served in [...]
The grave of a heroic pilot and soldier awarded the Victoria Cross is at the centre of a community clean-up project. Air Commodore Ferdinand West is buried at Holy Trinity Churchyard in Sunningdale. On Tuesday, May 7 members of the community will join volunteers from the Household Cavalry at Windsor’s Combermere Barracks and men from the RAF to tidy and [...]
Dear all, With regret, and after much soul-searching, /Living-History Museum at the former RAF Bicester Aerodrome following the sale of the site by the MoD to another organisation (confusingly called) “Bicester Heritage Ltd” and their plans for a commercial business park based on vintage motoring. BCH has worked tirelessly over the last 8-years to secure RAF Bicester for Public benefit [...]
Britain’s new oldest man is thought to be 109-year-old Ralph Tarrant from Sheffield. The RAF veteran, born in 1903, has taken the title following the death of 110-year-old Reg Dean. Mr Tarrant said: “I was very healthy minded in my young life. I did smoke at times but I cut it out because I started running.” Source: BBC Footage
Researchers recently uncovered the remains of a Bristol Beaufighter Mk X in northern Italy, drawing renewed attention to a World War II British airplane that was first discovered — and nearly forgotten — years ago. According to a report by Discovery News, parts of the fuselage and the propeller were found by a group of amateur researchers in the small [...]
The remains of a British World War II aircraft known as “Whispering Death” have been rediscovered in Italy by a group of amateur researchers. Consisting of parts of the fuselage and the propeller, the remains were actually found years ago in the small village of Gusano, in the Apennines mountains south of Piacenza, by aviation war enthusiast Francesco Lazzarelli. Nearly [...]
War creates more death than any other human activity; it also generates more ghost stories. Tales of ghostly winged aircraft are well documented, but few compare to the tale of the crew members of three WWII Douglas DB-7 Boston bombers who completed and signed their debriefing reports after they’d been shot down and killed. After the fall of France, a [...]
A DISTINGUISHED wartime pilot who flew 59 missions with Bomber Command has passed away aged 90. Captain James Bowman, known as Jim, was one of the few survivors of the Second World War campaign, and prior to his recent death, was believed to be one of the last veterans in his area of bomber command. He lost many friends in [...]
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