A GRANDFATHER who dreamed of being a bomber pilot has spent three years creating a replica model of a Second World War RAF base. Plane fanatic and retired lorry driver Bernard Ross, 76, of Barmby Moor ...

The remarkable story of an RAF Pocklington navigator shot down over Germany; becoming a POW, escaping then recaptured twice, and finally surviving the 1945 ‘Death March’; was told poignantly by his ...

This is a story told to me by my late father of some of his experiences during WW2. My father was based at RAF Pocklington for the majority of the war , at the base were young chaps of a similar age ...

Pocklington School Combined Cadet Force (CCF) leaders – were recipients of His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant Award at a ceremony ...

A Yorkshire village with a special connection to The Great Escape is marking the 75th anniversary of the famous war-time prison break today. Chris Burn reports. Did you know with a Digital ...

POCKLINGTON'S Flying Man Festival takes off this Saturday and Sunday with a fun-filled programme of activities and events for all ages based in and around the town's All Saints' Church. The festival ...

Representatives of five ages of airborne warfare took the salute yesterday as the Yorkshire Air Museum mounted a flypast to mark the centenary of the RAF. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

I was called up in 1941 when I was 18. I wanted to be in the RAF as a pilot but once they knew I was a lorry driver they explained that the RAF was very short of lorry drivers and so I ended up in the ...

Stories categorised in 'Royal Air Force'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Gp Cpt Sinclair commanded the RAF bomber forces in Algeria in January-March 1943. They bet that if... We ...

I joined the RAF in 1941 and did my initial training at Babbacombe. I was accepted for air crew and trained at Marshalls, Near Cambridge, after which I managed my first solo flight in ten hours in a ...