One Man’s War

The memoirs of Joe Nethercott in the RAF 1939-46

Home Introduction Prologue Joining the RAF Battle of Britain North Africa El Alamein Sicily Italy Corsica France Back to UK Finally About

These are the wartime memoirs of Joe Nethercott, who joined the RAF in September 1939, at the age of 19.

 

He left his home village of Roadwater in Somerset then, and did not get back to the UK until December 1944, having survived campaigns in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, Sicily, Italy and Corsica, before landing in France in August 1944, near St Tropez in the D-Day of the South.

 

The memoirs were written partly as a therapeutic exorcism, as he explains in the Prologue. Created as a book, this site divides the work into chapters, each of which is a separate Adobe PDF file. Copies of the book are in the archives of both the Imperial War Museum and the RAF Museum.

 

This web site has been produced to enable a wider audience to read these experiences of a terrible time.

 

For more information, see the About page.

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