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  • November 21, 2007 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Help needed! #1273055
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    Thanks Linzee that’s most helpful! 🙂

    November 21, 2007 at 5:15 pm in reply to: Help needed! #1273075
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    Sorry forgot the important bit! They flew with 295 Squadron out of Holmsley South. 😀

    November 12, 2007 at 4:38 pm in reply to: Friday the 13th Photo request #1283419
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    Hi Maple I’ve got a couple if you want to pm me:)

    October 22, 2007 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Lavendon airfield? #1311136
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    Hi All nicked this from wikipedia:D regarding the bomb dump:

    Yardley Chase contains some large concrete huts, about 12m (40 feet) long, and about 6-8m (20-25 feet) wide, which were used during World War II to store bombs. They continued in use after the war, until the 1990s when the Ministry of Defence shut them down when it became obvious that they would be useless in a nuclear war. The site was served by a branch of the Northampton-Bedford railway line and evidence of revetted tracks are still visible around the site which is only a few kilometers East of the former depot of the Royal Pioneer Corps at Simpson Barracks in Wootton.

    The Eastern munitions site is larger than its Western neighbour and the bomb storage buildings, in addition to being less numerous, are also mostly surrounded by water-filled moats. The storage buildings at the Western site are surrounded by earth banks. The Eastern site was connected to the Western site by a rail track.

    The site is still used by Army cadets and Territorial Army units for basic skills training.

    regarding an airfield at Lavendon I can’t find anything!

    October 2, 2007 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Trying to identify an unknown Halifax wreck #1244144
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    Cees,

    I’ve done a bit of research with the help of the excellent Lost Bombers website, and I think I have narrowed your Halifax down to one of six! All these are English Electric MKII and came down in the IJsselmeer. Here’s the list:

    1) DT732 (Z-AX) 10 Sqd – crashed 13/14 may 1943

    2) JD271 (NA-M) 428 Sqd – crashed off of Andijk 19/20 feb 1944

    3) JB803 (KN-G) 77 Sqd – crashed 30 may 1943

    4) LW286 (LK-H) 51 Sqd – crashed between Urk & Hindeloopen 22/23 nov 1943

    5) W1217 (ZA-Z) 10 Sqd – crashed west of Makkum 23/24 may 1943

    6) W1067 (EY-?) 78 Sqd – crashed 25/26 jun 1943

    Hope these are of some use!!

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