RAF South Cerney-September 1939

[Charles Smith]

Hi,

On September 3rd 1939, No.38 Squadron was sent to RAF South Cerney, part of the 'Scatter Plan'. The home of a Service Flying Training School at the time. Can anyone tell me was the resident training school shipped out, or did they continue training from there with the arrival of the Wellingtons.

TIA
Chaz

[JDCAVE]

Not sure about the situation you describe, but in the Spring of 1944, dad was at South Cerney at No. 3 AFU, so it was a training airfield at that time.

Jim

[Charles Smith]

Thanks Jim.

[Lyffe]

Chaz,

I think what you need is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_South_Cerney.

Brian

[JDCAVE]

Yes Brian. “14 March 1942 when it was converted into No. 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF to orient foreign-trained pilot to British conditions and standards.”

Dad had already been flying in England for 2 years by this stage so he didn’t really benefit from that part of the training, but he did learn from the training on the Beam Approach Training, which he said he quite enjoyed.

Jim

[Charles Smith]

Hi Brian,

I did see this but it did not answer what I was hoping to find.

Chax

[Lyffe]

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._3_...ing_School_RAF.

Edit 1: Oops, sorry Jim, you'd already said that in your #5.

Edit 2: There's no reference to Wellingtons in my second reference.

[Charles Smith]

No.38 was defo there in September 39. Squadron, RAF Marham and Group ORBs record there stay.