Fascinating stuff – thanks for the link! Brief Glory, the ATA history published just after the war spells his middle name wrongly as Sallee, rather than Sollee.

There were serious incidents at both Greenham Common and Lakenheath. There is much on the web about them if you Google.

This must be James Sallee Browne who flew with ATA as a Second Officer. One of his assignments was to the ferry pool at Kirkbride. Genovese’s book We Flew Without Guns has more details. There were Zeroes reported on the normal route and severe icing on the more northerly one. The captain,William Dean, decided to risk the ice. In Genovese’s words “That was the last we ever heard of Jimmy Browne and Dean.” Their names are among those in the book’s dedication.

So did I!

Looks like Henlow.

Re Resmoroh’s comment about dispersed production, the Sharp/Bowyer Mosquito book has a six page detailed list of sub-contractors and notes that it is only part of the total of more than 600. It was no doubt similar for other aircraft types, although the same small firms probably supplied parts for a number of parent companies. About 30 years ago, the former production manager at Vickers, Chester told me that in 1940 he used to go round the local area paying cheques to small suppliers. This was for Wellington production. It was, in a lot of cases, literally a cottage industry.

There is also Tiger in the Sky but I have yet to find a dvd of that.

It’s here for £16 although I bought it online a few years back for a fraction of this price. I am just old enough to have seen it on the big screen.

http://www.vicpine.co.uk/Strategic-Air-Command.htm