The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Thank you PNK, I will try that through the genealogy association I belong to as they have a subscription to many things.
Terry.

Hi!

Welcome to the Forum.

If you spent any time in Northern Ireland you may be interested in the details I have gathered about the various Airfields here - I have the information on my website "The Second World War in Northern Ireland" at www.ww2ni.webs.com

I knew a number of the G flight folks from 665 AAC.

Good to have you with us!!

Hi All,

As some of you may have already heard, the Eighth in the East project is a 3 year Heritage Lottery Funded project looking at the impact of the arrival of the 8th American Air Force across the east of England in World War 2. The project will be involving aspects of archaeology, oral history, museum development, community events and a variety of volunteer training events. Our aim it to learn more about the impact the arrival of the Americans had on the local population and landscape and, along with our partners, work on ways of preserving and recording these memories and experiences for future generations. We are very excited to be able to work together with the Airfield Research Group and the Airfield Information Exchange.

For more information about the project, please look at our website www.8theast.org or go to our Facebook page www.facebook.com/8theast

Thanks,

Hannah Potter
Community Archaeologist
Eighth in the East

Hello, I am new to the forum and live in the US. I found the website during search for the history of my recently acquired Series 1 Land Rover with RAF markings under layers of old paint. I posted a comment to thread about RAF Land Rovers elsewhere on the site. Car restoration is my focus but I have had several opportunities to help transport a C-47 back from the Oshkosh Air Show here in the US and grew up in the shadow of Mitchell and Roosevelt field in New York.

Welcome to the forum tsmith

I used to clutch a Series 1 when I was at RAF Butterworth (Malaya) in the early 1960s but it was replaced by a later model.

But, following an exercise in southern Malaya in 1962 I got left behind (abandoned!) and was fortunate to team up with an RAF Regiment man who was faced with driving a Series 1 from our location in central Pahang Province back to Butterworth so we teamed up and drove some 500 miles between us mostly on the poor coastal two lane blacktop but through washed out muddy areas were the Landie earned her keep. There was a fault in the exhaust which gave it a throaty roar which impressed the natives as we thundered through the kampongs!

Thanks for the story. It sounds as if you had the right vehicle for the trip. It will be a while before mine is on the road.

Hi

My name is Delyth Thomas.

I am researching my family tree and it is in relation to my uncle David Gethin Williams that I have joined this site. David Gethin Williams was a member of 97 Squadron of Bomber Command and was killed on 23 June 1944 - the day after his birthday. He was killed in a training exercise when the plane he was in, piloted by F/o HS Van Raalte, collided with another plane while practicing close formation flying. David Gethin was the navigator. I believe that the accident occurred near a village called Crowland in Lincolnshire.

The book - Bomber Command Losses 1944 has the following......
Lancaster 111 ME625 coded OF [ aircraft individual letter not shown] collided with another squadron Lancaster while engaged in formation flying practice and spun out of control to crash at Cloor House Farm on Deeping Fen.
The crew were -
F/L H S Van Rhalte RAAF
F/S M Durn
P/O D G Williams
W/O A L Lambert RAAF
F/O A Arnold RAAF [ flying as visual bomb aimer]
F/S E H Pearce
F/S R G Davies
F/L J D Fletcher

Thank you for your help I have also found a description in Max Hastings book 'Bomber Command'