RAF Radar Bomb Score Units (RBSU)

[tbwtg]

Bomb scoring at Bishopbriggs etc

Found this old thread here when Googling elsewhere for something about Bishopbriggs. There's a little more info on the site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Pri...F_Bishopbriggs

and on V-force navigation including target practice at London, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow at

http://www.blackmanbooks.co.uk/navigation.html

[binbrook]

Gerry Turner

At the risk of thread-drift can anyone out there give me news of Gerry Turner, who flew with me in Canberras before going to the RBSUs at Ouston and then Haydock in 1960?

[mickie564]

721mrbssu

Originally Posted by Barksdale Boy

Did not Devon and Tumby operate simultaneously and independently of each other, certainly from 67 until at least 73?

Yes they did i was at lindholme 69 to 73 and did attachments to both of them for a short period 1 months each as short of men and a unit detachment to Tain range Inverness for a UK USA bombing competition took us 2 or 3 days to get up there avoiding low bridges and over weight for the overrun brakes on the radar trailer behind a 3 tunnel great days

[POBJOY]

I well remember the 'Simulated bomb target' at RAF Kenley, as is was very close to the officers mess and more importantly even closer to Kenleys original 'bungalow ops room' which had survived the war but was demolished in the 70's. The fact that it survived the 18th Aug low level Dornier raid in 1940 should have protected it from the latter day destruction by the RAF, as it was still in its original condition as a classic example of how we had to fight the BoB with very little in the way of 'protected' facilities. This was the ops room that was replaced by a former butchers shop in Caterham, and latterly by 'The Range ' country house near Coulsdon. An ops room main equipment requirement was to to have multiple telephone lines to accept all the incoming data from Fighter Command, radar plots, the observer corps, and the Squadrons operating. As a sector station Kenley had an important role yet the ops rooms were only a surface building with a simple bund around it. Worse than that they were not even dispersed away from the primary airfield facilities so as alluded the Kenley one was a very lucky survivor, and should have been preserved.

[Pintoo]

Originally Posted by POBJOY

I well remember the 'Simulated bomb target' at RAF Kenley, as is was very close to the officers mess and more importantly even closer to Kenleys original 'bungalow ops room' which had survived the war but was demolished in the 70's. The fact that it survived the 18th Aug low level Dornier raid in 1940 should have protected it from the latter day destruction by the RAF, as it was still in its original condition as a classic example of how we had to fight the BoB with very little in the way of 'protected' facilities. This was the ops room that was replaced by a former butchers shop in Caterham, and latterly by 'The Range ' country house near Coulsdon. An ops room main equipment requirement was to to have multiple telephone lines to accept all the incoming data from Fighter Command, radar plots, the observer corps, and the Squadrons operating. As a sector station Kenley had an important role yet the ops rooms were only a surface building with a simple bund around it. Worse than that they were not even dispersed away from the primary airfield facilities so as alluded the Kenley one was a very lucky survivor, and should have been preserved.

Small correction:

I well remember the 'Simulated bomb target' at RAF Kenley,

The RBSU was at Kenley with the simulated targets around London. I remember using Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner as an aiming point. Green Park and Hyde Park were well defined 'no show' areas and HPC was a good offset.