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By Brian Shelley, May 1945 We were flying along in a DC-3, or as we called it in the RAF, a Dakota, in thick cloud over Burma’s mountains. Returning from a supply drop to the 14th army, we suddenly …
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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 …
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Shortly after I finished my training in 1943 at Wrexham Memorial Hospital, I volunteered to join the Army as a QAIMNS/R or QAs as they were called. I was accepted and became I. Pritchard Sister QAIMNS …
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by George LR Stevens Dear Dad, I have given nearly six years of my life to the Army, the first three of which I spent in Blighty with frequent visits Home, the second three years I have spent wand …
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By JS Walley My Regiment, the 1st Battalion the North Staffordshire, like many other line battalions had had very little time for jungle warfare training, we had been for many years occupied with i …
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By Brian Scott I was a pilot with ""C"" Flight, 357 Special Duties Squadron RAF, flying Lysander aircraft and operating exclusively with Force 136. Members of this force were dropped into the variou …
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With grateful thanks to Colin Neale for typing out the information contained on this page, from his father's records - his father being Major Basil Neale who was one of Wingate's staff:- Diary of Bd …
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By Flt Lt Edward DSN Sparkes We arrived in Liverpool in the damp gloom that seems to associated with homecoming servicemen. The new officers looked just that! New and shiny uniforms, new and shiny c …
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By Air Gunner Bob Ustick As soon as you were off duty, you went back to your charpoy and flopped down or went into the mess and read or sat down and drank. One of the two, mostly drank. Drinking w …
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By Peter Briscoe Word had come down that following completion of conversion from Hudsons to Dakotas; the squadron was on the move from outside Delhi, at Palam, to a new base at Basal, outside Rawala …
