I am an ex soldier with a healthy interest in military history.
I live in Norfolk and seeing as most of the history round this area comes coloured sky blue, I thought it best to join here!
I have visited this forum as a guest several times and have found it to be a mine of information. If I can add anything constructive to the discussions, I shall!
Welcome to the forum. The is a lot of crossover between the Army and the Air Force. I was recently looking at the WW2 ground signals the troops on the ground used to signal to aircraft for air drops, strafing, bombing etc. and there were a lot! Some of the signals were duplicated and depended on the context. It must have been a relief when radios became the norm later in the war?
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
The wartime ground to air signals systems have a special interest to me for reasons that will hopefully come to fruition in a few months time.
The National Archives at Kew hold AIR 10/2201 which is AP 1632 RAF Signals Manual Part V - Ground Signal Codes (Provisional). This is dated 1938 but was reprinted in 1942. I don't know if you have seen this or not.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
The National Archives at Kew hold AIR 10/2201 which is AP 1632 RAF Signals Manual Part V - Ground Signal Codes (Provisional). This is dated 1938 but was reprinted in 1942. I don't know if you have seen this or not.
Not seen! It looks I will be taking a look now though.
Thank you.
No wonder no one is interested in my NE England Airfields research - you are all in - or from - bloody East Anglia .. ...[mad maniacal laughter as I wander off down to the dungeon to dust off another airfield tome]
welcome to the site...
Late last night upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today Oh how I wish he'd go away
ex-RAF I welcome input, from the Army perspective, relating to WW2 interaction between the two forces.
Ground to Air signalling became an important aspect of survival for downed pilots even post war and leaflets showing signal patterns were included in pilot's survival packs (are they still) in case the survival radio (SARBE) was out of commission.
CJH, don't worry, I have an interest in the NE history so will be watching your contributions. The East Anglicans don't have it all!
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it's good 'ere ! Seems to be a lot from the Norfolk area, but very few from Bucks 
...[mad maniacal laughter as I wander off down to the dungeon to dust off another airfield tome] 
