Originally Posted by
LTNman
Except Lydd was not built and opened until 1954
Cor - did I divulge war secrets? Or can we let them out of the bag now? The BBC does
I DID say grass airfield (=aerodrome) and I think you'll find that the RAF operated from there in WWII. Anyhow,
my DC3 DID fly from there in 1957 - I was on it
"Before
WWI Lydd became an important artillery practice camp. Experiments with high explosives carried out on the shingle wastes around 1888 led to the invention of the
explosive Lyddite. Lydd was at one time a garrison town, and the area is still an important training ground for the military.
Lydd is also the site of an
airfield, the first constructed in Britain after the
Second World War, Lydd Airport is now known as
London Ashford Airport."
and 1940
"On October 21, a
Dornier was forced to land at the
Lydd aerodrome, short of fuel, having been confused in his bearings whilst attempting to return to France, by the use of recently invented equipment devised to interrupt the homing beams sent from Germany to guide such planes. The Dornier was the first example of this new type of Bomber to fall into the hands of British Intelligence.
A
Wellington Bomber had the misfortune to crash-land on the 26th June on returning from a 1500-plane attack on
Bremen...."
(Fm
http://www.answers.com/topic/lydd)
Also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a6027833.shtml
Both sites worth reading
Airnuts