Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Neheim and the Möhne Dam. Having visited Rheinberg War Cemetery, I headed for Neheim and the Möhne Dam, to further…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Neheim and the Möhne Dam. Having visited Rheinberg War Cemetery, I headed for Neheim and the Möhne Dam, to further…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Rheinberg War Cemetery. When I interviewed Pathfinder pilot Desmond Pelly he told me, ‘My feeling has always been that I…
This evening, 6/7 March, marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of Bomber Command’s direct support to operation Overlord, exactly three months before the 6th…
During the research for the book Flightpath to Murder, published in 2009, I visited the cemetery at Emmerich, Germany and the mass grave of those…
Below is a picture of Dick Haine, who served as a bomb aimer on a 50 Squadron Lancaster and was killed on a raid on…
Saddened to hear about the passing of one of the most influential history writers of recent times, Martin Middlebrook. Reading his ‘First Day on the…
Dave Fellowes flew as a rear gunner with Bomber Command during the Second World War. A great friend and an integral part of the fundraising…
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the formation of The Guinea Pig Club on 20 July 1941. Last year the RAFBF gave me the opportunity…
While researching for my book D-Day Bombers I had the pleasure to correspond with Lancaster rear gunner Fred Whitfield. Fred shared some of his diary…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of the Bomber Command memorial by Her Majesty the Queen. On that hot day back in June…