When the 242 OCU was at Thorney Island in the 1960s, Tangmere provided the drop zone for our equipment and heavy load drop training.
Like others, I was quite taken by that 1985 BBC documentary, above, and it's hardly a surprise that it would concentrate on the station's fighter history. Not mentioned was the crash on the night of 19 November 1943 when a badly damaged 10 Squadron Halifax attempted an emergency landing there whilst returning from a raid over Germany. (A landing at RAF Ford, further along the coast, had proved impossible.) The circumstances as regards possible crew injuries are not known, but the attempted approach was abandoned and, initiating a go-around, the aircraft veered away and hit a hangar. All 7 crewmen were killed, and 10 aircraft in the hangar were also destroyed. Checks with Air Historic Branch and the RAF Museum have established that no Board of Enquiry details have survived - but it's worth mentioning that the pilot had successfully landed a damaged, asymmetric aircraft some weeks beforehand. A relative of the Air Bomber on the crew is quite well-advanced in trying to have a memorial to all 7 men, all buried elsewhere in the UK, placed as near to the site of the crash as can now be established.