Can anyone point me in the right direction. I am putting RAF Davidstow Moor online. Some of the anti-submarine Squadrons refer to sightings which I don’t understand. For example in August 1943 which is about to go onto the website there are reports of ‘Force Favour, Fisher and Plumb’. I can’t find them listed as convoys and am at a loss to know where to look next.
Your help would be much appreciated. http://www.rafdavidstowmoor.org
By: wieesso - 17th January 2008 at 12:36
Hi,
guess you know it already…
Squadrons: 53, 144, 269, 282, 304, 404, 524, 547, 612
http://www.rafcommands.currantbun.com/Coastal/indexC.html
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th January 2008 at 12:12
Coastal Command query
Thank you for your help. As you can see the Davidstow site is going online one month at a time. We do have a collection of photographs and they will be added in due course but it is a long process getting permission to use some of them. We do this for the love of it so paying for the priviledge is out of the question. If you have something you want urgently email me and I will see what I can do. Thanks again.
By: John Aeroclub - 17th January 2008 at 10:24
I can’t help you with your enquiry I’m afraid, but must congratulate you on an amazingly thought out and researched website, it’s very useful for general second world war airfield info aswel.
Davidstow is an amazing place, and I love just sitting out there on a quiet summers evening, immagining what it was like in 1944.
For anyone who hasn’t been there, it is truely worth a visit, as it is unrestored and has not been developed in anyway.
I must agree, what a splendid site. Well done. One question though, do you not have photographs of any of the aircraft which operated from Davidstow.
John
By: Ross_McNeill - 17th January 2008 at 10:08
Hi,
“Force” in front of the code name usually implied a RN gathering rather than a predominantly Mercantile Marine convoy.
I would examine the Admiralty records at The National Archives, Kew.
Regards
Ross
By: pagen01 - 17th January 2008 at 09:47
I can’t help you with your enquiry I’m afraid, but must congratulate you on an amazingly thought out and researched website, it’s very useful for general second world war airfield info aswel.
Davidstow is an amazing place, and I love just sitting out there on a quiet summers evening, immagining what it was like in 1944.
For anyone who hasn’t been there, it is truely worth a visit, as it is unrestored and has not been developed in anyway.
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January 16, 2008 at 6:51 pm