On this page are links to memories (most recently added first) given to the Editor for preservation. It is a great sadness that many contributors have passed on.
Harris Barnett Levin(e)
Harris Levin’s son David has passed these images of paperwork his father kept relating to his time on National Service from 1954 to 1956, including the 1955 Christmas Dinner Menu…
Gordon Hedgecox of 192 Squadron
David Hedgecox, whose late father was Gordon, left a comment on this post about life in CSE in 2021 on how much his father would have enjoyed them. “His name…
Memories from Geoff Wanley
Memories from Geoff Wanley I was posted to Watton in April 1965 after joining the RAF at the tender age of 15 in 1963, as a Boy Entrant Apprentice. It…
David Fossey Cpl Tech – my time here
I was posted from RAF Yatesbury to CSE Watton in September 1954 and worked there as a Cpl Tech Air Wireless Fitter until September 1957. During my term there we…
SQN LDR R.E. HUNTER DFM (WOp/AG IN WEBSTER CREW)
This biography was authored by Rusty Russell and has been extracted from Mast High Over Rotterdam – Please respect Rusty’s Copyright to the work as detailed in the first section of the book. Wartime crews…
Ray Dorman – 3rd SAD – from Weymouth, Massachusetts
Ray Dorman – 3rd SAD – from Weymouth, MassachusettsNotes from Ray’s son Jim Ray Dorman was a private in the USAAF. He learned how to work on the B24 bomber at…
She Called Him Raymond – A True Story of Love, Loss, Faith and Healing
A letter penned in 1944 uncovered the inspiring true story of Helen Gregg, one of eight children of Irish immigrant parents raised in the miseries of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen…
2235 (Deal) Squadron ATC and Alan Bond at RAF Watton 1960’s
This is the group photo of my ATC squadron on summer camp at RAF Watton in the early 1960s. I (Alan Bond) am in the front row – seated 3rd…
Philip Felton remembers
A 21 Squadron navigator in 1941 was Sergeant Phillip Felton who wrote to Colin Waugh about his career in the RAF and involvement in raids of the period; “I joined…
Video: A tour of RAF Watton in 1988
One day in 1988 a local builder, Paul Lincoln, drove past the upturned concrete base of a Nissen Hut. In the underside he recognised the tyre tracks of an American…