Air Force Lookups - if you need help

[DeeBoneham]

Start with getting his service record. Is your mum still alive as she can get the records for free?  If you look back through here you should be able to find the link so you can get the forms to do it?
Dee

[BlackpoolBell]

many thanks

[DeeBoneham]

Good luck and come back to us if you need any further help when you get it.  By the way you want photocopies not a transcription of the records because by the very nature errors can occur during the transcription...
Dee

[Wheeltapper]

Hello Kyt, I am researching the crash of a Wellington Bomber which came down on the edge of Althorpe Park, Northamptonshire on 24 Sept. 1944. All crew were lost. It was part of the 85 OTU flying out of Husbands Bosworth airport. I have the names of the crew and have been in contact with the family of the Canadian Airman,but am finding it difficult to positively trace the other airmen and their families. Any help that you could give me regarding these airmen would be wonderful. Iam new to this form of research so please forgive me if I have not gone about this in the correct way.Best Regards,
Wheeltapper.

[seahall]

HI All.

Kyt has already answered some of this query and help from
other Rootschatters here, just so we do not duplicate.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0a4f/

Also more information about crash.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0a4g/

Sandy

[bill247]

hi sandy, bill from glasgow (see page 19 ), just wondered if kyt had found any info on the Ames Radar unit No 504 Dingli cliff Malta . I am looking for any information or a military map that would show where this radar stood on the cliff in ww2 as my Late father served there with the RAF as a radar operator on this unit.
      many thanks for your time.
                   bill.

[grahalex]

hi, my Dad was William Alexander S/N 968154, served with 458 squadron. He was born in Scotland and I believe was ground crew with 458. He then trained as an Air Gunner, he always told me he was a mid upper Gunner on Lancs but I can't find this in his records.He was posted to ACSEA in September 1944. Can you help with any other detail ?

[DeeBoneham]

Grahalax by records do you mean that you have his service records?  Did you get the photocopied ones or transcribed... If so if you pm Kyt a copy of the record he may be able to decipher it for you... If you dont have his service records then it is worth getting them because that will tell you what you want to know... the link about service records is further back on here if you need it.
Dee

[grahalex]

I have the photocopied one, but I don't have a digital version of it and it's too big to scan. I will try and photo the relevant sections and PM them.