Help - Photos of RAF Wildenrath & JHQ Rheindahlen

[Warmtoast]

I'm trying to fill in the gaps in my photoalbum of time I spent at JHQ Rheindalen in the early 1970's (1972 - 1975). In particular I'm looking for photos showing the following:

RAF Wildenrath

1. Air Movements Terminal/Centre
2. Air Movements Terminal with a Britannia Airways B-737 parked alongside (Britannia Airways had the MOD Trooping contract from Luton to Wildenrath and Dusseldorf)
3. Photos of the dummy aircraft parked around the airfield designed to fool the enemy

JHQ Rheindahlen

Photo of back of JHQ as seen from DeRuyter Road that ran alongside the security fence at the back of JHQ (My office looked out onto DeRuyter Road).

Dusseldorf

1. Photo of the Military Air Trooping Terminal that was across the road from the main civilian terminal.
2. Details of Britannia Airways MOD Trooping flights to Wildenrath and Dusseldorf. My recollection is that they flew Luton to Wildenrath on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and to Dusseldorf on Tuesday and Thursday. Confirmation would be welcome.

Photos of the Britannia Airways London terminal that was alongside St Pancras station?

Photos would be for personal use only.

TIA

A couple of photos from my album showing the front of JHQ as it was in the spring of 1974.

[betty swallox]

Sorry,
I have no photos. But just acknowledging that I LOVED my time at JHQ as a holding officer in the 90s! What a ball! Fond memories...I think!

[Geehovah]

Cant help on the ones you want but plenty of pictures of F4s from 79 through 82.

[H Peacock]

Sorry,
I have no photos. But just acknowledging that I LOVED my time at JHQ as a holding officer in the 90s! What a ball! Fond memories...I think!

Again no pictures, but I worked there on the Air Staff 93-95. Delightful front office view (2 doors from the AOC - Rocky G great bloke to work for), and the Mess life was simply awesome - what with Wegberg Mess closing the day I arrived!!! Indeed, fond memories...

[ICM]

Despite being in 'The Big House' from 1989 to 1996, I'm afraid that I have no pictures of the type requested. But for Betty S, I do have great memories of that group of 'Kevs' who certainly increased the gaiety of the living-in nation as they held, often for many months, whilst the flying training system tried to catch-up with the effects of Options for Change. I hope that most finally made it to a squadron somewhere - and it's odd to think that they're probably mature chaps with wives and families now! But as HP says, matters moved up several gears in July 1993 as the Wegberg Mess closed and the PMs (and others) moved across to Rheindahlen. (Somewhere around then we also became the Churchill Mess as we were joined by living-in Army officers.) As HP says, 'awesome' will probably do nicely to describe the next 18 months or so - and a few lives were changed by it all, too!

Meanwhile, back at the HQ, three immense cheers for Rocky G as AOC 2 Gp, a Group that in its 3 brief years never quite lost the habits of having been an independent Command for some 40-plus years, no doubt occasioning the odd bit of irritation back at High Wycombe.

[RON SPURS]

Jhq 73-76

Hi,

Unfortunately I do not have any photos of JHQ but I did work inthe RAF Commcen from 73 until 76 as an SAC Clerk Sec.

I did a lot of Discos at the Marlborough Club and around the base.

Ron Spurs

[Gunnerrock]

Warmtoast, check your PM's

Regards

GR

[Warmtoast]

Gunnerrock

Thanks - have done.