European Air War - The Gen

Merlin engined Halifax. http://mogggy.org/pictures/23y-1.jpg Email from me to Flyright RedEyes 21st June 2001: "Having read the Lancaster thread and thought about the engine problem, I had this idea which wouldn't go away, so I had to try it out. Remove the "component" references in t...

Midway Island and the then "flat pack" carriers: http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-1.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-2.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-3.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-4.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-5.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/22y-6.jpg http://mogggy.org/p...

Flight Lieutenant Bill Spence, who has died aged 101, completed 36 operations as a Lancaster bomb aimer. Later in life he became a successful novelist, and he had 76 books published under various pseudonyms. During his bomber training he teamed up with his pilot Mike Wood, a Rhodesian. In August 194...

Flt Lt Desmond Curtis, helped to keep the Channel clear of the Germany navy ahead of D-Day – obituary The navigator was awarded the DFC for ‘exemplary gallantry’ after his Mosquito crew sank one U-boat and seriously damaged another light Lieutenant Desmond Curtis, who has died aged 100, flew more th...

Flight Lieutenant Ken Souter, who has died five days before his 105th birthday, was an RAF pilot who flew Hurricanes in North Africa during the Second World War. Postwar, he was the lead pilot of the small unit of Lancaster bombers that featured in the film The Dam Busters ... https://www.telegraph....

More daring than Dambusters – my father and the wartime raid you’ve never heard of Eighty years ago, on the afternoon of Sunday 13 August 1944, 27 crews from the RAF and South African Air Force and one Polish crew entered the operations room at the Allied Campo Casale airfield overlooking the harbou...

This report on an encounter between RAF Hurricanes and Luftwaffe Junkers caused controversy among listeners when it was broadcast the next day.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 14 July 1940.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/ckvv1dqn1k1o

The fatal crash of a wartime bomber, which narrowly missed a village, is being remembered 80 years on. Seven RAF crew - aged from 19 to 24 - were killed when their Halifax caught fire after being hit by anti-aircraft fire on 6 July 1944. But witnesses at the time believed the actions of the crew in ...

A flypast has honoured the bravery of Britain's last surviving Victoria Cross holder for air action in World War Two, who is now aged 104. Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank earned the honour aged 24 for an attack on a German U-boat while piloting a Catalina flying boat. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/new...

One of Britain's most celebrated World War Two planes will be performing in public again this weekend. The Avro Lancaster PA474 had been grounded for maintenance but has now been signed off to fly following extensive testing. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/325c/live/5a896a10-557e-11ef-8...

In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/23/multimedia/14Alexander-Review-mvtc/14Alexander-Review-mvtc-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

A group led by archaeologists are searching for an American pilot who was killed when the B-17 he was flying crashed in eastern England in 1944. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/05/22/multimedia/22xp-missingpilot/22xp-missingpilot-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp https://www.nytimes.com/2...

He single-handedly shot down 16 enemy planes in dogfights over Europe. After the war, he became one of America’s top test pilots during the “Right Stuff” era. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/05/20/obituaries/00anderson-bud-toppix/00anderson-bud-toppix-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp htt...

The event, held at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, takes place from 10:00 to 18:00 BST on Saturday 3 August. The show, which helps to raise money for the on-going restoration of Avro Lancaster NX611, will feature an appearance from the plane and many more. Organisers have describe the event a...

At ‘Battle of Britain Kwik Fit’ in south-east London restorers get the 80-year-old machines in the air https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2024/06/09/TELEMMGLPICT000380610456_17179486376220_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqXuvy510m4VCeEVDuNKTJKATB59a3d70MZ730YNsKkSU.jpeg?imwidth=1280 On a bright Wednes...