Accidents during training were tragically common. Over 8,000 RAF personnel were killed in training alone. The death rate in ...

The Short Stirling was the RAF’s first four-engine heavy bomber during World War II, according to Stangvik, who said that the planes encountered problems flying above 15,000 feet when fully loaded.

It was on the night of December 17, 1942, when a British Short Stirling was getting close to home after a bombing mission. The Dutch coast was a friendly sign that the crew would soon make it back ...

WORLD WAR II MEMORIES. I lived at Cliffe. At dusk on Friday 23 October 1942 I was watching dozens of Stirlings (four engine bombers) going to attack targets in Northern Italy.

The leader of a team that helped recover the remains of airmen from the wreckage of a World War Two bomber hopes dental records may identify them. The Short Stirling bomber, based at RAF Downham ...

Towards the end of September 1943, I was posted to 199 Heavy Bomber Squadron at Lakenheath, and was lucky enough to join the crew of a Stirling bomber, captained by an Australian, Allen Noble ...

After several circuits it went silent. The Stirling Bomber had crashed into a row of four cottages and a farmhouse at Rye Street and ended up in the field opposite.