Stories categorised in 'Weaponry and Equipment'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Without doubt the most important crew member in a Bomber Command aircraft was the navigator; if you did not...
The British Army was sent to France to defend against the expected German invasion but for months nothing...
From April until June 1944, I learned the basic science and practice of photography at the RAF No 1 School...
My understanding has always been that a rhumbatron was a metal tuning device, a klystron was an oscillator...
My other four serving brothers were George, Royal Artillery, Jack, Royal Artillery, Joe, Army Fire Service...
HDML1383 and her crew, 1944 Here is a true-life story, written by my father-in-law, 'Engineman'...
Towards the end of summer 1943 we were involved in an “invasion” exercise, the enemy being our...
In his determination “to get back at Jerry for taking my brother,” and impatient to confront...
Because the weather was that bad the Landings were cancelled for twenty-four hours, from the 5th to the 6th...
In addition to handling the boat, the divers had to practise cutting through antisubmarine nets. This meant...
Hampden AE392 of 144 Squadron was shot down by Lüth off the North German coast. F/Lt Kingston, Sgt R....
Some centrimetric radar, with 2 paraboloids of about 3 foot diameter, of Canadian manufacture, was coming...
Martin Reagan also remembers Livermere, as the place where the Squadron took delivery of their first batch...
After a short time in the Transit Camp a detachment of Diving Officer, Lt. Park, myself and attendant Jock...
The next thing was the Troop Officer took over my tank and crew and left me with his damaged one. I thought...
Commanding a section I was in the 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50th Division, and we...
Area command was provided by a master control centre at Sandon that covered all the local A.A Batteries,...
Tom did more than his share Tom was wounded at the Battle of El Alamein, during 'Operation...
Although only four boats made it to the fjord to attack, all the crews were at the same peak. He and I...
Some general comments on the subject as seen by the writer in conjunction with others on Reg Batt's...
After a couple of weeks I was transferred to the hangar, Foxwarren 45, situated at Redhill Road, Byfleet,...
This included: a loaded .38 revolver, currency, 20 gold sovereigns, silk maps of Thailand and Malaya,...
But the interesting thing about the limpet mine was that it was very much Bedford home-made... They then...
Lancaster N-Nan, JB607 with its crew; Pilot- Stan Ireland, Flt Eng- Billy Squires, Air Bomber- Frank Seery,...
Radar secrets In December 1939, I was sworn in as Sergeant Wireless Instructor in the Royal Artillery. I...
From August 1939 on, he was at the Miscellaneous Weapons and Development Department of the Admiralty...
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