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  • September 17, 2006 at 9:25 am in reply to: Defiant dig in Rutland #1290584
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    Google Defiant Rutland for much more info. Sorry, can’t send a link, PC crashes!

    September 10, 2006 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain flight to move? #1299854
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    And it seems that Air Atlantique have won the contract to overhaul the Lanc this winter …

    September 8, 2006 at 9:01 am in reply to: Buried Lancasters.(2004 thread) #1302772
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    Re Darren Be’s post some way back, I presume the aircraft in and around the loch were the five Barracudas dumped in Loch of Strathbeg on the edge of RNAS Rattray? They were the result of a bad accident when a Barra trying to land in mist hit the tower aerials and ploughed into four parked aircraft. A contact told me about the existence of wreckage a few years ago.

    September 7, 2006 at 9:46 am in reply to: Buried Lancasters.(2004 thread) #1304660
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    The farmer who lived (lives) near the tower site at Deenethorpe told me in 1973 that a B-17 hangar queen had been buried nearby in 1945 (he indicated the area). Another tale concerns aircraft buried in the hillside on the edge of the old Penrhos airfield in North Wales. And of course the famous Halifax on the edge of RAF Hooton Park. Yes, there are stories of such relics on many airfields, some highly unlikely, but some may just be true …

    September 7, 2006 at 9:29 am in reply to: Hornchurch Lives Again? #1304686
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    Thanks for clarifying that guys. From that TV programme a while back, it looked like the original site was completely re-landscaped, but I thought there might be a chance that a bit of it was left. The callsign Hornchurch Radio is very misleading!

    September 5, 2006 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Alan Brown #1307223
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    Yes, he helped me too. Met him once at AHB. A great guy.

    September 1, 2006 at 11:44 am in reply to: Vulcan XH558 Gets Clearance For Take Off #1314659
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    Perhaps football isn’t so bad after all. During the last match I attended (Tranmere Rovers, dragged there by a friend) a B-47 flew over on a long
    contrail. Definitely the highlight of the afternoon.

    August 29, 2006 at 10:36 am in reply to: Original WW2 signs – info sought #1322982
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    Just had a thought – what I have just suggested is probably rubbish because the vehicle driver would have to know what the letters indicated. Where did the notices come from? I thought the USAAF bomb dumps were in the East Midlands and East Anglia.

    August 29, 2006 at 10:32 am in reply to: Original WW2 signs – info sought #1322998
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    The letters underneath might denote the initial letter of the bases for which the bombs were being collected. ??

    August 22, 2006 at 2:31 pm in reply to: US pilots breaking neutrality #1332889
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    Thanks again VoyTech. A sad story but at least he ended up in an honoured grave in a little Welsh cemetery, rather than a forgotten hole in the ground in the Kolyma. Will pass on this information to the local County Archive.

    August 21, 2006 at 4:12 pm in reply to: US pilots breaking neutrality #1333494
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    VoyTech, thanks for that information about Sgt Wares. Good point about him being born in Petersburg. Probably an interesting story leading up to his presence at RAF Hawarden as late as May 44 but this is thread creep!

    August 15, 2006 at 4:33 pm in reply to: Aircraft Recoveries #1252362
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    Sorry, I’ve been away and missed the next few posts. Yes, Faygate IS in Sussex – forgive an ignorant Northerner! There was also 50 MU Cowley in Oxfordshire with, in April 1942 at least, detachments at Stroud and Wylye. 71 MU at Slough was one I forgot about (seems to have covered from Bucks into Essex), plus 235 MU, Netheravon, responsible for glider recovery and/or salvage from 14/1/43.

    63 MU’s ORB states that its area covers “the whole of Scotland, with the exception of the area covered by 56 MU, which is north of a line between Fort William and Stonehaven and east of the Caledonian Canal.”

    August 15, 2006 at 12:16 pm in reply to: US pilots breaking neutrality #1252601
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    There are four Americans buried in the cemetery at Hawarden, all of whom died in flying accidents, three of them with the fighter OTU at the nearby airfield. This was long before Pearl Harbor. Our US friends will be pleased to know that their graves are well kept, along with those of eight other nationalities flying from the OTU. One of them originated from Leningrad, but I suspect he was Polish rather than Russian, this being a cover for family back home.

    August 11, 2006 at 11:46 am in reply to: Aircraft Recoveries #1257533
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    Dave Smith

    Apart from 34 MU, whose records are disappointingly sparse, the others are:

    56 Inverness (Lots of detailed stories)
    63 Carluke, Lanarkshire (Ditto)
    60 Leconfield
    67 Taunton
    75 Wilmslow
    78 Bynea, S Wales
    83 Woolsington
    226 Mullusk, N Ireland

    There was one in Kent (Faygate) but I can’t find the number.

    The ORBs of the last five listed are not very detailed, but there are a few full stories included as examples of the units’ work.

    August 6, 2006 at 8:31 pm in reply to: DC-6C at Deenethorpe #1263696
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    Sorry, thread creep, but this reminds me that the farmer who lives near the old tower site told me in 1973 that a B-17 hangar queen was buried around here at the end of the war.

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