Weaponry and Equipment

Bristol Home Guard 1940-41

My unit - “G” Section, No.11 Platoon, 11th.Gloucester Battalion - was very seriously involved...

Life in the Forces Psychiatric Service

10 — Alec and Joyce Sheppard talk about their wartime: Alec, a trained craft teacher, as an artillery...

Experiences of a Volunteer Pilot (260 Squadron)

Eventually, training continued but now flying Kittihawks which was the aircraft I would be expected to fly...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 10

Heading them was the skipper, Jack Oakley, all of twenty-eight years old, and balding, seeming more or less...

Ronald Edgar Remfry in Canada, 1941-43

This was ascribed to the fact that we came from places much nearer to sea-level than where we were in...

Cableway Braking System Used in the Italian Campaign

Eventually it came about that somewhere or other Kenny Wray, a very fine Officer in charge of the Engineers...

Tuppence a Day Danger Money

We also wrote messages on the balloons to Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and any other poor German who saw them....

Get Those Merlin Engines Back in the Air!

There was an advert in the Herald: “possession of cottage in exchange for a caravan” and it...

S.D.M.T

In some types the chassis and body are built as one unit. bAN INTEGRAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, with its...

Bomb and Mine Disposal in Poole during the build up to D-Day

As the work up for “D” Day began in earnest, and live munitions replaced practice rounds, it...

Commissioned Service to 1944

Their crews sprang into action and, with great difficulty and resourcefulness, managed to fix a towline...

Cricket to Pluto - Stanley Tarrant

We left the station outside Kenley Aerodrome and arrived at Liverpool dock yard not knowing where we were...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.: 79th Armoured Division in Normandy

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 4

The arrival of Sandy Stewart, who had dropped rank and been posted as Major to an R.E. Field Company and...

My Time with 271 Squadron Chapter 1

Later on, we were advanced in our training we had both Squadrons taking off towing the wooden Horsa gliders...

The Gunners

One of the great developments of the war was radar, and so German aircraft flew in extremely low from the...

RAF Reclamation Squad

ON occasion we were stationed on USAAF 8th Army Air Force bases in Essex and Herts, and the difference, in...

“I Wanted to Join the Navy but I Ended Up in the Army”

Before I was called up to the army, I worked for John Laing at Sellafield for a short while in 1942. The...

1945 Radar Trials

WW2 LETTERS — 1945 My father, Ron Taylor, was working on radar development for TRE, based in Malvern,...

My Experiences of Radar Installation

No. 2 Installation Unit was responsible for fabricating and maintaining all radar stations and aerials on...

Power For Peace

The latest R.A.F fighter, a Gloster Meteor F3 and the diminutive Twin-Boomed De Havilland Vampire,...

I Lived to Fly -Part 2

Tam and I taxied up the Halifax and the cable was attached. Charlie Cranmer and the boffin flew in the...

John Florida

There were always Uniformed Officers coming, the Cordite and everything we produced was inspected by the...

Motor Torpedo Boats

The crew objected to the chief mate who was a stickler for discipline and they complained to the young...

From Balderton to Scotland, France and the Far East

The pier was soon visited by Field Marshal Montgomery himself, and one of Dad's most vivid memories is...

Charioteer Mark One - 3

Then I had to keep the speed down, while Pearcy made sure he wasn't left hanging on to the net; he had...