Prompted by Micchim5’s post looking for photos etc, I’m wondering if anyone has photos of the Norwegian Catalina’s at Wormit during WW2. As part of RAF Leuchars, 303? Sqdn operated out of the small village harbour. Whist stationed at Leuchars, I lived in Rock House which, I believe, was used as their HQ.
By: wieesso - 31st October 2014 at 06:52
A well known image – maybe it is of help for you http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?8927-WW2-Clandestine-Flights-from-Scotland-to-Norway&p=108174&viewfull=1#post108174
Martin
By: Deskpilot - 30th October 2014 at 23:25
Completely not what you are after but somewhere I have a photo of a Submarine off Wormit circa 1909 that you are welcome to a scan of if you are interested.
Adrian
Thanks Adrian but not what I’m after.
By: David Legg - 30th October 2014 at 11:57
As an aside, but sort of related, when we took Catalina G-PBYA to the 2013 Leuchars air display, we were asked to fly the RAF’s last surviving VC holder John Cruickshank (who earned the award in Catalina JV928 of course). We duly obliged and routed up the Tay between Dundee and the old Catalina base at Woodhaven/Wormit. It was a great privilege to sit with him and gaze out of the blister.
By: adrian_gray - 30th October 2014 at 11:32
Completely not what you are after but somewhere I have a photo of a Submarine off Wormit circa 1909 that you are welcome to a scan of if you are interested.
Adrian
By: FarlamAirframes - 30th October 2014 at 11:20
333 Squadron Catalinas – discussed here
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?65233-Catalina-Mk1-of-333Sq-info-needed
picture of one here
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Vingtor_jt.jpg
and some here
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%200107.html?search=marcel%20dassault
By: DaveF68 - 30th October 2014 at 02:28
Not Catalinas, but I have seen, via a Norwegian friend, a serioes of photos of one of their He115s being scrapped on the slipway at Wormit – most of the buildings remain to this day.
A few have been around for years, but this series was much more comprehensive. I beleive it was published on a Norwegian forum by a relative of one of the servicemen.
A couple of examples:
http://home.online.no/~vingtor/Photos/He115/F56_BV186_2_800.jpg
http://home.online.no/~vingtor/Photos/He115/F56_BV186_4_800.jpg
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/63595-captured-heinkel-115/
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