Title
Incident on the Sittang, May 1945 - Frank Merrett
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Navy and Royal Marines
Description
By Frank Merrett Fourteenth Motor Launch (ML) Flotilla was about to embark from Milford Haven on one of the longest journeys undertaken by such small craft in modern times. Other MLs had gone out t …
Title
Time Was... - Manny Curtis
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
While I still remember it in early 2005. 60+ years after the events By Manny Curtis, South Lancashire Regiment I received my call-up papers in June 1943. The Primary Training Centre (PTC) to whi …
Title
Engineers by Glider to Myitkyina – Company A, 879th Engineers - 17 May 1944 - Mark P Zaitsoff MAJ, EN – USAR (Ret)
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
by Mark P Zaitsoff MAJ, EN - USAR (Ret) This article gives an account of one engineer mission during World War II. Company A's glider mission to Myitkyina is an untold story from a forgotten theat …
Title
Detachment 101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for regular Allied forces - Sterling Rock Johnson
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Civilian
Description
By Sterling Rock Johnson After the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, the Japanese escalated from regional aggression to a sweeping armed conquest of virtually all Asia. With bewildering speed, J …
Title
Wireless Observer Units - Ron Collins, Ex-LAC Wireless Operator, RAF
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Air Force
Description
This article was printed in the Summer 2001 Edition of Dekho! Very little seems to have been written about the work of the Wireless Observer Units that the Royal Air Force maintained during the yea …
Title
Paul Adams' Memories
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
I started off my military career at the age of 13 in the Cadet Corps of the Royal Masonic School (Boarding). At age 16 I joined the Territorial Army in the London Rifle Brigade and on September 1st, …
Title
Double Dip - Alan Hawkshaw
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Air Force
Description
By Alan Hawkshaw On 8 October, 1943, we set out from the Santa Cruz (Bombay) airport to do a ""Creeping Line Ahead"" convoy escort in Beaufort 1, DW 940. Crew ; AI Hawkshaw, Captain, Cornwall, Ont., …
Title
Hairy Experiences - Alan Barnett
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Royal Air Force
Description
By Alan Barnett Student Pilot There were occasions when the ground crew was given the chance to fly in the Dakota, even sometimes to be able to take over the controls. On one such flight, the Capta …
Title
A View of the River.pdf
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Title
MAJOR ROY W. WILSON. MC
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
MAJOR ROY W. WILSON. MC My father, Roy Wilfred Wilson, was born 16.09.1913 Hemel Hempstead, Herts. He died 13.03.2001 Bexleyheath, Kent. His civilian life and his lifetime hobby was as an Artist and d …