[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] I took these today along Draycott Avenue, Chelsea. He worked wonders for the victims of fire, especially the burned pilots of...
BBC News 28th February 2017 Sandy Saunders: WW2 'Guinea Pig' pilot dies from cancer - BBC News One of the last surviving members...
Sgt Percy Charles Cato 1261952 RAFVR his niece has a caterpillar pin badge which she believes was issued to Percy Cato as he had to bail out of an...
Could anybody confirm to me that the British had a "Flying Boot" medal? I was told that such medal was given to shot down airmen who walked back...
This looks too good to put in the Whats on TV thread ! I've just seen an advert for this on BBC2 and it does look very very good indeed with...
Hi. I joined today, I was a bit bored today so I decided I would try to find out something about my family history. I remembered my father telling...
Surgicat - The Royal College of Surgeons of England On-line Collections I like Henry Tonks, never knew that he drew these poor chaps
Thomas Percy Gleave was born in 1908 and commissioned in the RAF in 1930. I know that he was CO of 253 Squadron in July 1940, at Manston in 1942...
Excellent news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078658/Sixty-years-late-wrong-righted-bomber-heroes-given-fitting-memorial.html With...
They don't like it up 'em! After cackling at an episode I don't think I'd seen today I found this: The Dads Army Appreciation Society. DAAS...
My mother was a nurse, initially at Shotley Bridge(County Durham) and later at Morpeth(Northumberland) during the war years. She talked about...
Here is something else I was wondering. Anyone know of anyone who has both awards? Presumably anyone parachuting into the drink and subsequently...
"Inspired" by the two Bader threads, I've been thinking about war and disability, and the medical and post-medical techniques used in the...
I was reading in a german rag today that the spitfire was flawed as it had an error in the wing design that lead to it being unstable above a...
Has anyone ever visited the Tragino Aqueduct and got any photos of the site/area?
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