RAF armourers scrawled a poignant note on a Syria-bound missile - reportedly headed for Isis - which read "Love from Manchester." The defiant message, confirmed by RAF bosses today, was designed to ...

Keith Beaumont, 44, served with 11 Squadron at RAF Leeming working on fast jets, and worked in the Gulf to protect no-fly zones. He was down to his last bag of rice when he reached out to the British ...

I spent three years working as an RAF Armourer in Bilida, in North Africa. The Station was involved in preparing for an invasion in Europe and the aircraft we looked after were from both RAF and ...

The Sun reports that the defiant note was initially thought to be a social media hoax, but RAF bosses confirmed today that it was genuine. Suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people on Monday at an ...

This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jackie Taylor of Bolton Revisited on behalf of Frank Hilton (son of Harold Hilton) and has been added to the site with his permission, he fully ...

I was eighteen and it was the beginning of the year, 1940, when I was called up and marched down to the recruitment office in Liverpool. I didn’t have a choice of which branch of the Forces I joined, ...

IT’S hard to believe the sprightly-looking man bounding along the street is a centenarian. Danny White, former RAF armourer, former Chronicle transport manager and still a singer, is 101 on his next ...

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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jackie Taylor of Bolton Revisited on behalf of Frank Hilton (son of Harold Hilton) and has been added to the site with his permission, he fully ...