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Association member Frank Colenso spoke to Air Mail in late 2020 for an article on his time in Burma during WWII. To mark the 80th anniversary, we are pleased to re-share Frank's incredible memories and recollections from that time. “To us ...
When Helen Turner answered the nation's call to arms in 1939, she had no idea that within a year she would be one of the first three Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel to be awarded the Military Medal. Of the 215,000 ...
In 1953, on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, veterans met the then-new Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command. Between lunch and reminiscences, Air Mail’s editor spoke to a handful of pilots for a brief interview while the ...
International Women's Day - The story of Helen Turner MM For International Women's Day we look back on the incredible story of Helen Turner and her fellow members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during World War II When ...
More than 1,000 photographs and 35 videos were submitted in the latest RAF Photographic Competition. We bring you the finalists’ photographs from 2022 that caught our eye. The Personnel Category, sponsored by the RAF Association, saw Mr Andrew Wheeler of ...
Tomorrow’s weather today The Mobile Meteorological Unit provides critical frontline Meteorology support to operational, strategic and safety decisions. You might struggle to even bang in the first tent peg on an operation if the ground is frozen or flooded. ...
“I’d gone from being a serviceman fighting on the front line, to fighting to put food on the table.” 48-year-old Warren King, from West Yorkshire, served in the RAF for 15 years. A Senior Aircraftman, working in close protection, his ...
We spoke to Warrant Officer Donald Campbell about his childhood in Jamaica, life in the RAF, and his new project which highlights the contributions of British African and Caribbean people to the UK. Warrant Officer Donald Campbell was a Survival Equipment ...
Military veterans who attended Loughborough University’s first veterans' resilience programme have described it as ‘life changing’. Created by the University and the Royal Air Forces Association, the mental wellbeing support programme invited small groups of veterans onto campus for a five-day ...
In the month that marked 77 years since the end of the war in Europe, Association member and former radar operator Vera Ladds (pictured above) spoke to us about the vital work she and her colleagues undertook during WWII. “When war ...
At the dawn of aerial combat in WWI, the Royal Flying Corps was operating at the edge of the envelope. Many Royal Flying Corps airmen later joined the Royal Air Forces Association - and told truly hair-raising tales of how they ...
Former British Navy and RAF pilot David Morgan DSC was the most successful British fighter pilot of the Falklands War, and the last to be involved in a dogfight. Here he writes about his return to the Falklands, their wildlife – ...
