Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Dated 3rd May Over 70 years ago it was gunned down off the English coast as the Second World War raged in the skies. The Dornier 17 German bomber was blasted from the air during the Battle of Britain in 1940, and has remained beneath the waves off the Kent coastline ever since. But work began yester...

A GROUP has shelved plans for a Bomber Command museum in Bicester after failing to secure the site they wanted. Last month the Ministry of Defence announced the flying field site at RAF Bicester had been sold to Bicester Heritage Ltd. It plans to create a motor and aviation business park. Rival bid...

Tom

The intent of this type of film was to reduce friendly-fire incidents and increase kills of enemy aircraft; it would have been shown to both anti-aircraft teams and flight crews and fighter pilots. In many cases the animation for these films was created by the Walt Disney Co. as part of their contr...

Vintage stirling poster.jpg Vintage and rare original Bombers To Blast Berlin Wings For Victory National Savings Poster 1943 Printed Poster with May 8-15 Lend Your Money Buy Bombers To Blast Berlin added in poster paint In 1943 Wings for Victory Week was held to raise money for bombers. It was held...

Here is an absolutely stunning photograph that captures the moment before a formation of FW 190,s meet a formation of B24,s

I shudder to think of what's about to transpire.
Tom

The Big Lottery Fund has extended its Heroes Return 2 programme to enable veterans to apply for funding to make second trips. The programme deadline for closure will now be end of 2015. This will ensure Second World War veterans from the UK, Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland who have already ...

Peter Smith Published on 10 April 2013 Campbell Thomas An Appreciation PETER Smith, who has died aged 88, was one of the last survivors of the Glen Cinema disaster, which claimed the lives of more than 70 children in Paisley in 1929. He went on to join the RAF in the Second World War, took part in ...

I think you should email these details and forum link toTony Robinson of Time team and tell him of that there are currently no known Short Stirling aircraft and the significance of such a 'find'. The only problem John is we only have the word of a veteran and that's all. We will have to investigate...

Steve, Its certainly a great image and new to me. The camouflage scheme on the Ford WOT crew bus looks to be late war period, early 1944 0n. I wonder though if this picture is from March 1945? and does it show a crew returning from an operation? Looking at the expression on their faces, does it show...