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17th January 2021, 14:38

Lyffe replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

I'll add my thanks, Ross, but I hope you don't mind if I add a little more to the story which is copied verbatim from the Historic England website at...

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17th January 2021, 14:33

PeteS replied to a thread 15 OTU Wellington June 27, 1941 - P/O Leonard Hercules Campbell-Rogers RCAF in General Category

Hi Dave (alieneyes) Please can I have a copy of that article you mention. Many thanks PeteS

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17th January 2021, 13:24

PeteS replied to a thread Bomber Command suitable map - Lincolnshire to Europe in General Category

Thanks Jim I'm confused because I know I replied to your response below, but its not there now, yes I have downloaded that one, thanks for your...

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17th January 2021, 12:48

Ian Brown started a thread Fighter Sectors in Scotland in General Category

I'm trying to confirm the dates that the verious Fighter Sectors operated in Scotland (or in areas that included parts of Scotland). From the...

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17th January 2021, 11:45

Bob replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

Thanks Ross, I will pass that on. I think it will answer the question. Cheers

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17th January 2021, 11:41

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

William Edward Gibson 1355869 was fatally injured when he was struck by a lorry driven by private George Bingham on November 5th whilst walking along...

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17th January 2021, 10:46

wwrsimon replied to a thread 12-7-1945 Hudson FK455 EACF Kenya crash in General Category

Hello I can confirm Johnston, Troughton and Wright from ancestry.co.uk and the newspaper archive on FMP: Alastair Macfarlane JOHNSTON: From...

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17th January 2021, 10:42

Ross_McNeill replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

All the statements are correct. The Watch Office (note terminology), in the link, was the third to have been built. It was to 1941 drawing...

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17th January 2021, 10:22

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Hello Mavis , Sorry no . Only what’s above which is a 20 year old note in one of my old exercise books

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17th January 2021, 09:18

Mavis Williams replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Have you any more information on Dorothy Florence Monica ROBERTS's husband Tom ROBERTS who was also in the R.A.F., he was from Hawarden and his...

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17th January 2021, 06:58

Resmoroh replied to a thread F/Lt Devon in General Category

107174 (CC Commission) HTH Peter Davies

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17th January 2021, 06:22

COL BRUGGY replied to a thread 12-7-1945 Hudson FK455 EACF Kenya crash in General Category

Hello, Tentative proposal for crew/passengers aboard AHQ EACF Hudson VI FK455, that crashed after take-off at Eastleigh, on 12 July, 1945. ...

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17th January 2021, 04:55

Bob replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

Lyffe, thanks for the link but still puzzled. The photo of the tower is the one that was built in 1944. Local sources say that one was destroyed...

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17th January 2021, 04:38

Richard.K replied to a thread F/Lt Devon in General Category

Thanks for that bit of info Dave. Would he have a RAF service number? Regards, Richard

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17th January 2021, 03:26

alieneyes replied to a thread F/Lt Devon in General Category

Richard Stanley Arthur Devon...

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17th January 2021, 03:01

Richard.K started a thread F/Lt Devon in General Category

Hello. On June 15/16,1944 W/Cdr McLernon of 408 Squadron took F/Lt Devon to Boulogne, not part of the flt crew. The notation in a logbook shows F/Lt...

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16th January 2021, 23:42

JDCAVE replied to a thread Bomber Command suitable map - Lincolnshire to Europe in General Category

Pete: Did you ever download that chart? I found that I had downloaded the high resolution .TIF file of the unused chart: ...

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16th January 2021, 22:30

Jagan replied to a thread Hawker Tempest MkV armament in General Category

200 Rounds per gun - Total 800 rounds as per 4+ publication's Hawker Tempest (Mark Ovcacik). Also mentioned in Warpaint Books Hawker Tempest...

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16th January 2021, 21:58

Don Clark replied to a thread Group Capt. David Roberts DFC AFC & Bar in Threads with No Replies

London Gazette 2nd Supp 17 Dec 54 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40355/supplement/7215 Air Ministry, 21st December, 1954. The QUEEN...

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16th January 2021, 21:44

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Charles Reginald Bate 1062647 suffered a seizure and died at Beullech on Angelsey

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16th January 2021, 21:41

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Norbert Walsh 615821attached to number 5 care and maintenance unit died as the result of an unspecified accident

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16th January 2021, 21:30

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

George Herbert Searby 989769 died as the result of an unspecified accident

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16th January 2021, 18:58

Bob replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

The names are those of 161 Sqdn Lysander pilots

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16th January 2021, 17:58

RodM replied to a thread Map - sheet 7 germany in General Category

Hi Finn, I forgot to point out that the first suspicious point about the grid reference you gave is that it is eight figures. Personally, I've...

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16th January 2021, 17:58

ianh replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

Hi Brian Hugh Verity's book, "We landed by moonlight". Ian

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16th January 2021, 17:28

Lyffe replied to a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

Bob I think this might answer your question http://www.controltowers.co.uk/T-V/Tangmere.htm . The website covers most UK airfields . Edit: It...

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16th January 2021, 17:03

Bob started a thread RAF Tangmere ControlTower in General Category

I wonder if anyone can supply the answer to this question I have been asked? What was the exact date that the control tower was built at Tangmere...

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16th January 2021, 17:02

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

Thomas Edwin John 553991 died in Bridge of Earn emergency hospital from heart failure following an Appendicitis operation

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16th January 2021, 16:54

Graham Boak replied to a thread Bristol Beaufighter TF.Mk.X weapons in General Category

One or the other.

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16th January 2021, 15:55

jonheyworth replied to a thread Jon’s illiterate updates for Jagan in Unaccounted Airmen and Airwomen Project

James William Johnstone 1105914 attached to 221 group HQ, died of malaria complicated by dystentry in the Davidian hospital, Calcutta

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