6th Jan 2024, 07:24 - Wikipost
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Which Aerodrome Mk IV
Thank You teusje. Good clues with the Mosque and the Formal Open Green Space.
My challenge is often an open green space too (depending on what crop is planted). Briefly only a flying field many years ago.
My challenge is often an open green space too (depending on what crop is planted). Briefly only a flying field many years ago.
dH4's somewhere in England?
Submarine Telegraph Cable Building RHS. Cables laid here 19th Century. Undersea activity continues into 21st Century.
Last edited by OUAQUKGF Ops; 20th May 2023 at 21:39.
At the Landing Field in 1917. Tasked with a high altitude reconnaissance sortie over the Kiel Canal (later cancelled) a pair of RNAS Airco DH4s were finished in an experimental low visibility scheme of matt doped sky-blue and buff with subdued national markings.
Sorry chaps - you are sort of on the right track. I don't think the DH4 would have the range to do a recce over the Kiel Canal from Cornwall........... perhaps somewhere a little bit closer to Germany ?
Yes I've moved to East Anglia. The haul to Brunsbuttel would have been a long one; would they get there? Operation was cancelled so we'll never know.
The field itself, well I've found it but there's no name so assuming it's the green field in the middle of the photo, it's about 3 or 4 miles due west of a village called Walcott but 621andy mentioned RAF Bacton, so that could be the identity in which case andy beat me to it.
See http://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org...ds/8170-bacton
The field itself, well I've found it but there's no name so assuming it's the green field in the middle of the photo, it's about 3 or 4 miles due west of a village called Walcott but 621andy mentioned RAF Bacton, so that could be the identity in which case andy beat me to it.
See http://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org...ds/8170-bacton
Last edited by chevvron; 21st May 2023 at 16:27.
Well done 621Andy Bacton Night Landing Ground (1915-1919) it is. Incidentally those Undersea Telegraph Cables laid 1891-1901 went to Emden and Borkum in Germany. At the latter was a very active German Seaplane Naval Air Station during World War One. Today there is a very large Terminal at Bacton receiving Gas from the North Sea some of which is exported to Europe. The Stone Memorial is for the Crew of a Coastal Command 500 Squadron Hudson which was operating from Bircham Newton on a North Sea Patrol when it crashed at Bacton on January 16th 1942.
The Hilliard Memorial resulted from a collapsed undercarriage on landing at Bacton by a BE2 and the detonation of its Bomb Load. Gerald Hilliard is buried at Holy Trinity Church, Caister on Sea, Norfolk where this plaque is placed.
I thought you might like the Zeppelin Chart. L23 dropped 6 HE Bombs near the Landing Field while there was much damage at other places in the locality. Mrs Cubitt, 93 years old, of The Grange, Bacton slept through the raid without stirring. L11 dropped 19 HE Bombs and 26 Incendiaries on the neighbouring villages of Honing and Dilham. Mrs Fanny Gaze a 79 year old widow of Hall Farm, Honing died of shock.
Further reading: Zeppelin Blitz by Neil R. Storey. History Press 2015.
Over to you 621Andy !
The Hilliard Memorial resulted from a collapsed undercarriage on landing at Bacton by a BE2 and the detonation of its Bomb Load. Gerald Hilliard is buried at Holy Trinity Church, Caister on Sea, Norfolk where this plaque is placed.
I thought you might like the Zeppelin Chart. L23 dropped 6 HE Bombs near the Landing Field while there was much damage at other places in the locality. Mrs Cubitt, 93 years old, of The Grange, Bacton slept through the raid without stirring. L11 dropped 19 HE Bombs and 26 Incendiaries on the neighbouring villages of Honing and Dilham. Mrs Fanny Gaze a 79 year old widow of Hall Farm, Honing died of shock.
Further reading: Zeppelin Blitz by Neil R. Storey. History Press 2015.
Over to you 621Andy !
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Interesting stuff! Thank you OUAQUKGF Ops
OK, an easy one (for you lot at least
)...This was 1976 and it's a bit more developed now...
OK, an easy one (for you lot at least
)...This was 1976 and it's a bit more developed now...
Eastern Germany...?
