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Dedicated to RAF & USAAF Second World War airfields. Celebrating the people, architecture, & WW2 airfield stories.
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Footage showing RAF 248 Squadron Beaufighters low level flight before and after bombing run over enemy convoy off the Frisian Islands on July 7th, 1944. One of the aircraft ditches in the water during return flight after being hit by enemy fire.🫡
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To follow up from yesterday, I believe Brian Lane is also in this image.
Brian "Sandy" Lane DFC went missing in action on this day in 1942, aged 25. Via Control Towers page on Facebook https://t.co/fprT2eiiIu
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Seen on the Home Front History FB Group... thought it a fantastic image.
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The 'Humbie Heinkel' at East Lothian, 28 October 1939. It’s believed to have been the first German bomber shot down on British soil in WW2. via Control Towers on Facebook https://t.co/yHXANjeJNK
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It's around this time every year that I lament the fact that Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean didn't have a particularly active airfield in WW2. Happy Christmas one and all. 🧑‍🎄
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Merry Christmas From Former RAF Newton Control Tower. By Bill Hughes.
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Brian "Sandy" Lane DFC went missing in action on this day in 1942, aged 25. Via Control Towers page on Facebook https://t.co/fprT2eiiIu
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ARM3C Robert L. Brown of Denver, Colorado, poses in the cockpit of an F6F Hellcat aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) with “Scrappy,” the ship’s mascot, November-December 1943.
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Saw this posted on Facebook with no identifying caption or location. It's got snow though, so good enough for December.
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Flamethrowing tanks set fire to Japanese aircraft in Sasebo Airfield, Japan, on November 2, 1945.
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Hawker Hurricane at RAF, Northolt Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @ HowdiColourWorks
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What's on your Christmas list? I've asked Santa for this. 🎅
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If you can afford to chuck them a donation to their crowd-funder, they are quite close to hitting the target, it would be very generous. You can do that here: https://t.co/ghXFIqOplK
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The children and staff at Sholing Junior School have been working for a numbe… Richard Hutchinson needs your support for Remembering the Heroes of Southampton
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Kids at Southampton primary school are raising money to have a plaque placed in the city to commemorate James Nicolson, the only Battle of Britain recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was shot down over the Southampton. 1/2
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Who's cold? B-17 bombers from the 401st Bomb Group, at a snow covered Deenethorpe airfield. England, 1944. Colourisation work by Nathan Howland, HowdiColour
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Kids at Sholing Junior School in Southampton are trying to raise enough money to place a memorial in the city to James Nicolson, the only Battle of Britain VC, plus Martyn King, youngest Battle of Britain pilot KIA... both events taking place over the skies of Southampton. 1/2
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IWM Image & Caption: An Anglo-Indian WAAF. is now studying at an R.A.F. Radio School to become a wireless operator. She is Leading Aircraftwoman Hilda May Lumsden who was born at Allipore, Calcutta.
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Incredible image. B-24 Liberator “KATE SMITH” of the 98th Bomb Group, is overhauled at an airfield near Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya, circa the summer of 1943. Image Repair & Colourisation: Nathan Howland (search HowdiColour on Facebook)
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If anyone fancies a challenge, I am trying to decipher this handwriting relating to the air crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax on the Isle of Wight in 1942, but not having a lot of luck.
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