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The link between a Caithness bog and The Great Escape- and the two men who uncovered it 30/07/2021, 6:00 am Norwegian WW2 pilot Jens Müller, who crashed his Hurricane into a Caithness bog during training, and less than three years later became one of only three POWs to escape from Stalg Luft II successfully On August 27 1941, sixteen Hurricane pilots from 331 Squadron were training in the skies above Caithness. They were practising flying in V formation, but as they attempted a 180 degree turn to the right, something went badly wrong. Two aircraft collided, one went headfirst into the peat...

The Spitfire was… “ …my first love.  I had been interested in the Second World War as a boy, then it all rather went out the window in my teens.  Then, in my late twenties, I was playing cricket and while I was batting a roaring, pirouetting vision appeared far over mid-wicket.  Turning to the umpire, I said, ‘What is that??’ And he replied solemnly, ‘That’s a Spitfire.’  It was a massive Damascene moment.  The following weekend was Flying Legends at Duxford, so I took myself off, drooled over the warbirds and especially Spitfires and bought a first edition of David Crook...

The 27-year-old RAF Hurricane pilot was ambushed during a raid on enemy supply vessels at Le Touquet in northern France, on August 17, some 80 years ago.

Gladys Eva, plotted aircraft movements for the RAF during the Battle of Britain – obituary She spoke movingly about talking over the radio to bomber pilots heading back to base, some of whom did not make it Gladys Eva: rose rapidly through the ranks Gladys Eva, who has died aged 100, was the last surviving WAAF plotter who served in Fighter Command’s operations centre during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz that followed. She was not yet 20 when she joined the RAF as a special duties clerk in March 1940 and, after a few weeks training, she was sent to Bentley Priory, the headquarters o...

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