Monday 25th March 2024 On the outskirts of Nordhausen there is a small memorial at the side of the road, in an industrial estate. It…
Tag: RAF
Saturday 23rd March 2024 It is quite some gathering of military vehicles at the Stalag Luft III museum in Żagań, Poland. Tanks and armoured vehicles…
Friday 22nd March 2024 From the hotel it is a short walk to the centre of Dresden, which was almost completely destroyed by the RAF…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Rheinberg War Cemetery. When I interviewed Pathfinder pilot Desmond Pelly he told me, ‘My feeling has always been that I…
In 2016 I had the honour to publish ‘You Never Know Your Luck’, the biography of Battle of Britain pilot and Great Escaper Keith ‘Skeets’…
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…
What a delight it was when actress Caroline Deverill agreed to join the cast of Spitfire the Musical as we set about developing our new…
(On 9th January 1941 the prototype of the Avro Lancaster flew it’s maiden flight. To mark the 80th anniversary here is a piece I wrote…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tony Pickering for the book ‘Five of the Few’, and in the sound recording herewith Tony describes being forced…
September 1940. While the Luftwaffe and the RAF fighter pilots fight for control of the skies over England during the Battle of Britain, a close…