Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Further update: In fact footage is held in America . The US Government sent a special film crew to the UK '44/'45 . With any luck I will be able to obtain further footage after approval through the Special Media Archives Services Division. Further info is available at http://www.archives.gov/researc...

For those who are interested, footage was supplied by the Imperial War Museum, who are being extremely helpful.With any luck I will have information about the relevant footage in due course. I am very grateful to everyone on this forum, and in particular to AlanW who has given me invaluable informat...

Hi Guy,
How wonderful that your pa is alive and that you could give him the clasp. Yes, I have applied for my father's clasp recently, and hope to hear in due course.
We are lucky to be able to be so proud.
Best wishes,
Annabel.

Having double checked the log book, you are quite right Alan. Squadron Leader Godrey was the pilot until October when Squadron Leader Cochrane was pilot. I believe that the latter is the pilot in the clip, but I may not be correct, as in my parents' wedding photos , there are two men who look quite ...

I can see that it is time to examine the log book again......!

Thanks so much! If the DVD doesn't arrive tomorrow I will contact them. I suppose that like you, I have always kept an eye out for photographs etc, but this caught me by surprise as I had just answered the telephone.i was completely blown away.... He was the age that my children are now, and when I ...

Dear Members, I am hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction! I was watching Bomber Boys with Ewan McGregor on the Yesterday Channel this week, and within the first minute, up popped footage of my father ( John Frederick Jenkins), giving a thumbs up as he got into a Lancast...

Dear Members, I am hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction! I was watching Bomber Boys with Ewan McGregor on the Yesterday Channel this week, and within the first minute, up popped footage of my father ( John Frederick Jenkins), giving a thumbs up as he got into a Lancast...