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Old 25th Jun 2011, 14:52
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Don't think this has been done before. It's not on the list but it looks familiar.

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Old 27th Jun 2011, 05:55
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Somewhere in Western Europe? Possibly Holland or Germany?

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No, not Holland or Germany but Germany would be a good place to start.

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Old 27th Jun 2011, 13:32
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If Germany is to be a good place to start I would be tempted to go to Austria or Poland next but it does look flat so.... Denmark?
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Not Denmark. But yes, Austria or Poland. But which one ????

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I'll make a stab to keep the thread going.... Austria and Wels.
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Davidsoffice.

Doh !! 50 /50 chance and you went for the wrong one !!
Not Austria.

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OK, I'll have a wild stab to keep it going, Northern Poland and Gdansk.

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Yes, but southern Poland.

The scene of a particularly dastardly trick by the dreaded Hun.

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Old 28th Jun 2011, 19:04
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Krakow, Poland ?
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Krakow, no.

But close.

Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939.

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Old 28th Jun 2011, 20:12
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Gleiwitz..
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Old 28th Jun 2011, 20:21
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Correct ! Well done sir.

The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, on the eve of World War II in Europe.

On the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message).

The Germans' goal was to make the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish saboteurs.

The rest is history..........

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Old 28th Jun 2011, 21:56
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Try this one:-

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Old 29th Jun 2011, 00:44
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East Anglia ?
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Old 29th Jun 2011, 05:08
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Bovingdon? Yeah I know we've had it before but it's a new aspect.
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Old 29th Jun 2011, 11:35
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East Anglia, yes, just about. Bovingdon - no.

Other than the existence of a memorial and the complete absence of trees, hedges etc, on the ground you would be hard pushed to tell that there had ever been an airfield here. From the air the faint outline of the runways is visible together with vestiges of concrete peri tracks still used for agricultural purposes.
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Old 29th Jun 2011, 13:20
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Polebrook?
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Interesting, looks like back then the USAAC had more snowplows at one airfield than all of last winters British airports put together!
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Old 29th Jun 2011, 19:09
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Could it be Ridgewell with 2 memorials one to 381st Bombardment Group and one to 90 Squadron RAF

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