'Eight Years in the RAFVR' by Suffolk Family History Society

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Three - Radar in Norway

IFF was a system that enabled radar stations to distinguish between incoming German and British aircraft....

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part One - Joining Up

By 1941 it was known to the British that the Germans had a form of RDF and a commando-style raid was made...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Two - France 1939

I knew where the two squadrons were, I knew there was quite a lot of German reconnaissance activity over...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Four - Setting the Singapore Defences

There Pearce joined us and we flew in an Imperial Airways Empire flying boat via Lake Galilee, Lake...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Five - The Far East War Starts

A Filter Room had been built, and manned, at Kallang, to receive and assess reports from the radar stations...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Six - Escape from Singapore

I remained in Singapore, running the four remaining radar stations, the communications unit, the filter...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Seven - Bombay

Recalling that I was held, temporarily, as a supernumerary on the strength of Air Headquarters, India, I...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Eight - Corsica

I then learnt that Allied plans called for aircraft-detection and fighter-control radar stations in...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Nine - France 1944

I replied that I had been stationed at Vassincourt in 1939 and wanted to know if Mme Jean was still alive...