On this day in 1945, No. 62 Squadron's Dakotas started ferrying Indian troops into Saigon, with French forces landing the next day, as RAF transport moved fast into an unsettled South East Asia. #RAFHistory rafch.link/vXFV

On this day in 1944, the first V-2 hit London at Chiswick, a missile that arrived faster than the sound of its own engine and opened a new phase of the bombing war. #RAFHistory rafch.link/vXFN

On this day in 1941, Hurricanes reached the Soviet airfield at Vaenga after leaving HMS Argus, reinforcing Murmansk's air defences and the Arctic supply route weeks into the USSR's war with Germany. #RAFHistory rafch.link/vXFL

Barnthorn author Steve Milnthorpe attended The Victory Show, where he met partner bookseller Paul Meekins and friend Bruce Crompton. Steve and Bruce are pictured with the special edition of ‘A Wartime Log’.

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Barnthorn author Steve Milnthorpe talks to Ashley Barnett about ‘A Wartime Log’, the remarkable illustrated diary kept by Lancaster airman Richard ‘Dick’ Woods while imprisoned at Stalag Luft 1.

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