Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Its good to see you too Jane! Its getting very homely on this Squadron now, lots of friends being posted in...

Dave, a couple of points to help you along the way... 754 Squadron was both a Fleet Air Arm squadron and also a RAF Regiment Squadron. I think in this case its the latter. 754 Squadron was originally part of the Aerodrome Defence Corps, and was formed at RAF Limavady on the northern coast of Norther...

I've had to register with the 630 site to see the photo, and now looking at it it immediately looked to me like a generator, of the type used on the engine. Each inboard engine of a Lancaster had mounted on it a 1000 watt generator to power the 'General Services' hydraulic system (IE bomb doors, und...

Hi David

Nice to see you join the Renegade Squadron. Good to see you...

Alex

RAF uniform during the war was more grey than it is now.

Overalls generally came in black or navy blue, or khaki, with varying shades thereof!

Well, I'm chuffed! I'm doing better at these than I thought. Can I have a lolly?

This is quite a hard one. The photo on the left looks like a Halifax to me - high mounted tailplane, and what appears to be that low entrance door/hatch on the fuselage side, over the roundel. Plus a Merlin engine. I'd go for a Merlin engined Halifax on the left. The photo on the right appears to ha...

Ooooo, that was sneaky. Max, how could you! Still a good challenge. Right I think we'll have to send you some photos for this. But good fun.

Hmmmm, this is tricky. The photo on the left looks like a Westland Whirlwind, with four nose mounted 20 mm (Hispano?) canon. I'd be fairly confident with that. However, the Whirlwind I think has a nose that lifts off to service and arm the guns. The photo on the right seems to have the guns in a dif...

Upkeep, here at last! Great to see you. We dont know Stirlings either, but we accomodate all tastes here. Although we still have to keep Max andHalifax in line!