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Old 18th Jul 2019, 14:15
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How about this?

A Luftwaffe target photo from 1940 showing Percivals at Luton Airport and the Vauxhall works. Both were subsequently attacked.

The lines across the grass at the airport help disguise it, making it look like farmland. These were not apparent on earlier photos so must have been deliberate.

The road starting middle left and extending diagonally to the NE is Crawley Green Road where my parents lived throughout WWII, and so did I until 1972. I can just make out the house. My parents remember one raid on Vauxhall, one aircraft so low "we could see the pilot"!

An amazing picture.

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