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Craig Kane
Craig is a former RAF Avionics Engineer who cares for his wife Michelle – a former RAF Communications Officer. Michelle was injured whilst serving in Iraq and Craig cares for her with the suppor...
Dennis Grogan
Dennis Grogan talks in detail about his time in Korea serving with 1903 Air Observation Corps. These flights, were equipped with Austers, and operated from an airstrip which was constructed for them b...
Stuart Holmes
Stuart Holmes flew Sunderland Flying boats with 205 Squadron during the Korean war. He provides a lot of interesting detail about his life at Iwakuni.
John Cumming
John Cumming provides an excellent account of his KOrean service with the RAF. Initially he was involved in aircraft movement. He was a movement officer for supplies such as napalm, flight nurse cari...
Tim Elkington
Wing Commander Tim Elkington admits to an uneventful childhood. He's also equally modest about a very eventful life as a World War II fighter pilot
Ken Plowman
Ken Plowman provides a detailed account of his time as an airman. He set out to be a fighter pilot but his timing was wrong so he settled for gliders.
Stoll sheltered housing
This is a snapshot of some of the remarkable veterans we interiewed at Stoll. The project, funded by the Armed Forces Community Covenant enabled....
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Brian Bird
One of the few surviving WWII pilots to have flown both the Hurricane and the Spitfire. Brian has all his faculties and his memories of specific bombing raids and life as a Spit pilot in Italy are abs...
Frank Renton
Lt. Col. Frank Renton, who led the bands of the Gordon Highlanders, the Paras and the Royal Artillery before becoming principal director of music at Kneller Hall, looks back at his 33 years in Army mu...
Eric Downing
Eric Downing provides a rare and often times emotional insight into the role of a Gunner on a Flail tank during the Second World War.
Albert Kingham
Albert Kingham gives a humorous account of his life as a young man in the ATC. Stationed at RAF Oakington he was involved in the Berlin Airlift.
Colin Parker
Colin used to love watching the trooping of the colour but coming from Hull had assumed a life on the docks was his lot. That all changed when he went into the army. He found a regiment he loved but i...
Roger Tomlinson
Lieutenant Colonel Roger Tomlinson shares stories of a horse that wouldn’t canter, choppers coming the wrong way, and the sound of a bullet whistling past at close range.
Sidney Mitchell
"Sidney was one of the first veterans we ever interviewed. His memories of the Battle of Crete shocked me at the time."
Michael Wainwright
Michael Wainwright is one of the Battle of Britain fighter pilots we filmed with the help of the Roger De Haan trust and Group Captain Patrick Tootal.
Dee Palmer
After her military career, Dee Palmer found fame with the band, Jethro Tull. But fame and fortune doesn’t necessarily bring you happiness as Dee reveals in this fascinating interview.
Ralph Brill
Ralph Brill is a serving WO Class2 Band Sergeant Major of the Irish Guards.
