Yes ! A few (sorry for d-e-l-a-y-e-d response). Did a dig on one in Norfolk in October last year, but that was a mid-air in 1948, nothing to do with...
Hi all: Recently (again) watched The Eagle Has Landed and I am curious. Does anyone know where the fictitious Norfolk village of "Studley...
The Control tower houses an EXCELLENT volunteer-run museum dedicated to the men of the 493rd BG which were based here. They also have an impressive...
I doubt it. None of the immediate post-war urban myths (i.e. "Ginger" Lacey shooting down the German raider which bombed Buckingham Palace) are...
OK then, here's the next:
Well, having kicked off the sequence of 1940 54 MU pictures, I think I ought to complete them on this thread - what do the other forumites think ?...
Spot on. However, I think all the RAF men pictured are part of the 54 MU team tasked with the salvage of this aircraft. The BR 20 was riddled with...
I slipped up there ! This is the correct picture: Never mind, I'm sure the smart alecs out there would have known the first pic has been...
Well done chaps - I failed to pick up on the bent prop in the 2nd pic so definitely as you say, two different Battle prangs dealt with by 54 MU....
Hi again: Sorry for the delay. Here comes the first, a wintry scene with a Fairey Battle on its belly. Absolutely no idea where, when or the...
Yes it is - well spotted. Clackers (Sorry, Ian McLachlan) did an excellent write-up on the incident in 8th Air Force Bomber Stories: A New...
Hi again: As most of my research over the years has been into WW 2 air crashes in East Anglia, you will not be surprised to learn that 54 MU...
54 MU eh ? Would be interested in any listings of their work in the aircraft salvage department. They covered Suffolk and part of South Norfolk I...
What was the gist of the info on the T4919 incident you mentioned ? Sorry about the delay but I only have a butchers at this site every few weeks...
And I believe that 15 Sqn RAF (Tornadoes) still have an aircraft which carries the name ? BC
"American air base" = RAFMildenhall. What a pity that the only people who were able to celebrate on the base were the (principally) American...
Nick: A photo of HSL 108 in German hands appears on the photo page "Air Sea Rescue High Speed Launches at Gorleston" in the chapter "Dockyards and...
"Biggest accident" in terms of WHAT ? Aircraft destroyed on the ground ? No argument there. However, on 15 July 1944, five B-24 Liberators of the...
The date in the Beaufighter Crash Log is 29.05.42 but in the text in the introduction, in a piece called "Beaufighter Blunders" it says 27.05.42 The...
A: Yes it was ! Do you have an interest/know anything else of the incident ? Only recently obtained a copy of the F.1180 card on this tragic...
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