RAF pilots consisted of British volunteers who were an average age of 20. 1 in 10 pilots were from commonwealth nations such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. While others came from occupied ...
Sgt Herbert Black, from Ibstock in Leicestershire, had a distinguished career in the Royal Air Force (RAF ... servicemen needed a piece of home in WW2 - Rainbow Corner and the Beaver Club filled ...
These dolls were made by WAAF's using RAF wool and were given to ... that had a profound effect on the course of WW2 Had the incredibly courageous pilots not flown to land in the fields of France ...
The story of the mostly 554 Anglo-Argentine pilots that joined the Royal Air Force in World War II, of which 122 died in combat, will be published in a book to be launched next August titled ...
A service to mark the life of one of the last black RAF World War Two veterans will ... He was thought to be one, if not the last, of the so-called "Pilots of the Caribbean".
A man is searching for the relatives of a Carlisle RAF Pilot Officer who was killed in a plane crash in North Norfolk in 1940. Archie Kerr of Long Sowerby lost his life aged just 19 in November ...