Stories categorised in 'Suffolk'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
So the Colonel got them all together and said that in England, in the winter, snow came up to your neck,...
Martin Reagan also remembers Livermere, as the place where the Squadron took delivery of their first batch...
I did not join up until January 1943 when the Battle of Britain was well and truly over, but after my...
Squadrons practiced training on rafts at Bawdsey. Butley Mills pond was used for trials of the...
Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...
I passed out from Cranwell in February 1940 at the tender age of 16 and three months, and was posted to 56...
A scruffy London urchin, with no money, no family, and no education, becoming an officer and a gentleman....
As the tail of the plane whipped backwards, Frank was worried he would be flipped into the fire so...
The first six months of the war were quiet, just odd raids — but town of Ipswich was often passed...
In about May 1940 the War Office decided that the Gunners would take over the duties of the Sappers. R.E.,...
My father was a Prison Officer working at the newly opened Holleslay Bay Borstal Colony. The area was...
He trained in Oklahoma at the Spartan School of Aeronautics, and after time in Canada, returned to England...
At the beginning of June 1944 I was one of a number of teengage schoolboys travelling daily from Felixstowe...
This Stirling was taken on a test flight by the duty crew, after a service. On landing approach the crew...