A potted History of a Wartime Bomber Command Aerodrome: RAF Oakington

Hello all,

My father pointed me in the direction of some PDFs on the South Cambs District Council website that are among the planning documents for Northstowe, a new town being built on what was RAF Oakington between 1940 to 1977 and I thought they might be of interest to others here. I’m interested because I grew up there!

They outline the history of the airfield, its architecture, aircraft etc, right down to a list of operations flown between 1940 and 1942 by Wellingtons and Stirlings.

The reproduction is very poor quality – it was a shame that they decided to fax it backwards and forwards a few times before finally photocpying it and scanning it (!) but it is nonetheless a very interesting account.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

I hope you enjoy them!