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anyone i/d airfield / a/c

Hi
presently on e bay under airfield
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RP-WW11-Airfield-Barbed-Wire-Bombers_W0QQitemZ6571363575QQcategoryZ4727QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

are they wellingtons ?
or do I have bad eyesight ? 🙂
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By: Flat 12x2 - 21st October 2005 at 00:02

As IAN ST mentioned , white control tower = post war does it not ?
Not Westcott, possibly Honeybourne ( J type roof just above left end of T2 ) & where pic would have been taken from is main road.

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By: AndyG - 20th October 2005 at 22:14

I think you’re right about them being Wellington’s, i would say initially that they are T.10’s though, as the nose turrets look faired over,so it may be later than the 1941/42 suggestion.
Not much idea on the location as not much in the background,Finningley ?

Early Wellingtons had no conventional nose turret as we would know them, so may be earlier.

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I’d say they are early Wellingtons, not T10’s.

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By: brewerjerry - 20th October 2005 at 21:46

Hi All,
Thanks for the comments
Cheers
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By: ian_st - 19th October 2005 at 21:47

Also the white building in the background tends to indicate that it is a postwar image

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By: Propstrike - 19th October 2005 at 21:09

Wellingtons, yes, and at a guess Westcott (Bucks)
I think I recognise that barbed wire.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th October 2005 at 21:07

I think you’re right about them being Wellington’s, i would say initially that they are T.10’s though, as the nose turrets look faired over,so it may be later than the 1941/42 suggestion.
Not much idea on the location as not much in the background,Finningley ?

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