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The life-affirming correspondence between RAF pilot Bob Keddie and Diana Ladner is revealed in an impossibly moving new book, ...
Commemorations across the country on May 8 will mark the end of World War 2 in Europe, including a church service attended by the Royal Family. But Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire will ...
The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at Essex and Suffolk airfields, according to a local historian. British-led French SAS ...
The SAS soldiers flew from Rivenhall in Stirling bombers similar to those seen here The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at ...
In January 1943, after rigorous training in Fife and at RAF Ringway in Cheshire, he graduated as a paratrooper and was posted to a signals company. Bolesław Ostrowski, 2017 ...
The site played an important role in the war effort, as a base for RAF squadron number 264. It also became dedicated to manufacturing, with both civil and military aircraft being designed and ...
Horsley became a POW for the remainder of WW2 and eventually came back to Australia, where he died in 1962. Flight Lieutenant William Alroy Hugh Horsley The remaining crew, Flight Lieutenant ...