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A bit of 244 squadron history, if you haven't already picked it up:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/storie...
https://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/244_wwI...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/storie...
https://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/244_wwI...
Thank you everyone for the replies, particularly cookie1600 for those links.
As well as SharjaH my Dad spent time at Shiabah and Habbaniya, his main base. Here he is with The Levies.
Does anyone know what the RAF Levies did there during WW2. All I can find is stuff about the Iraq war in the 30`s.?.
As well as SharjaH my Dad spent time at Shiabah and Habbaniya, his main base. Here he is with The Levies.
Does anyone know what the RAF Levies did there during WW2. All I can find is stuff about the Iraq war in the 30`s.?.
Now you guys have got me going.
As we are on the subject of RAF during WW2, Is there a RAF buff/expert/historian who can "translate" my Dad`s war records. For a start the image is poor, but its all in RAF speak.and abreviasions.
IMy Dad died when I was just 18 so I never asked him much about the war. I can remember my Mum saying he was in France when they surrendered and got out quick, ending up in the Channel Islands then back to the UK. I cant see anything about that on his records. ??
As we are on the subject of RAF during WW2, Is there a RAF buff/expert/historian who can "translate" my Dad`s war records. For a start the image is poor, but its all in RAF speak.and abreviasions.
IMy Dad died when I was just 18 so I never asked him much about the war. I can remember my Mum saying he was in France when they surrendered and got out quick, ending up in the Channel Islands then back to the UK. I cant see anything about that on his records. ??
Edited by Old Merc on Sunday 27th September 11:38
Wacky Racer said:
My dad aged 20 ( in the cockpit) of a Fairey Barracuda, on HMS Formidable somewhere in the Pacific in 1944.
You might be interested to see that same photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Formidable_(67)There's no mention of Barracudas in the Pacific though; according to that page they disembarked at Scapa Flow and were replaced by Corsairs and Avengers.
Old Merc said:
Now you guys have got me going.
As we are on the subject of RAF during WW2, Is there a RAF buff/expert/historian who can "translate" my Dad`s war records. For a start the image is poor, but its all in RAF speak.and abreviasions.
IMy Dad died when I was just 18 so I never asked him much about the war. I can remember my Mum saying he was in France when they surrendered and got out quick, ending up in the Channel Islands then back to the UK. I cant see anything about that on his records. ??
The S Depot at RAF Brize Norton is probably Storage Depot, later No. 6 Maintenance Unit.As we are on the subject of RAF during WW2, Is there a RAF buff/expert/historian who can "translate" my Dad`s war records. For a start the image is poor, but its all in RAF speak.and abreviasions.
IMy Dad died when I was just 18 so I never asked him much about the war. I can remember my Mum saying he was in France when they surrendered and got out quick, ending up in the Channel Islands then back to the UK. I cant see anything about that on his records. ??
Edited by Old Merc on Sunday 27th September 11:38
2AAS is 2nd Air Armament School at RAF Eastchurch.
17 Sqn is self explanatory, at this time the squadron had Mk1 Hurricanes.
Don't know what 3CAS or 3GAS means.
Littleport Hospital, which was a satellite of the RAF Hospital in Ely.
2 COTU is 2nd Coastal Operational Training Unit at RAF Catfoss.
Another stay in hospital, this time St Athan.
Arrives in Iraq 11/11/1941
244sqn was equipped with Blenheims and then Wellingtons flying anti-submarine patrols during the period listed from several airfields around the persian gulf.
138 Maintenance Unit was in Tehran
Bagdad General Hospital, it's not clear what the 64 refers to.
117 MU would make some sense, but it's at RAF Elmas on Sardinia so quite a transfer.
M. East Cmd could be Middle East Command, implying he's detached from whatever unit he had been with.
The next bit seems to imply he was not well, No.6 RAF Hospital was at Habbaniya, No.5 was at RAF Abassia in Egypt.
Is there another page? The dates only go as far as October 1944.
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