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Updated: Thursday, 4 December, 2008
We have updated our web site to include…
04/12/2008
Updated Wn131 Fort Joretl, east of Cherbourg. Updated with some new finds and photos and also refreshed some of the faded images.
04/12/2008
New Wn132 Freval, east of Cherbourg. There are at least three Tobruk's, an R-35 Tobruk, a few SK bunkers and lots of fresh air.
04/12/2008
New Wn202 Pointe Du Brick, east of Cherbourg. All I have found so far is an H621? bunker.
03/12/2008
New Wn205 Fort Bretteville, east of Cherbourg. A small French fort converted into a beach defence.
03/12/2008
New Wn128 Les Mares, east of Cherbourg. A small Wn covering three tracks leading off the beach inland. Three Tobruk's, several small SK bunkers, a Toll-Metro/Wellblech and a roadblock/sand loading bay?
02/12/2008
New Wn201 (Le Perrey) Cap Levi, east of Cherbourg. Part of Wn201 defences which I think is covers the whole area of Cap Levi. This is (Le Perrey) the western side of the Cap and it matches the eastern side Wn201 (Port Pignot). There are several main numbered bunkers but mostly just open emplacements and field positions.
18/11/2008
New Wn130 Plage Du Sablon, east of Cherbourg. A small defensive position with I hope more to find.
18/11/2008
New RAF Lasham, Hampshire, England an airfield built for bombers and used by fighters, scrapped a lot of airliners and is storing many bankrupt airlines planes today. Now one of the largest gliding airfields in the world. Oh! and a lovely little museum.
10/11/2008
New RAF Abingdon, Oxford, England started in the 1920's & opened in 1932 as a bomber airfield. Throughout the war used as a bomber Operational Training Unit and post war Transport & Air Support Commands with Beverly's & Belfast's. Closed 1992.
08/11/2008
New RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, England a WW1 aerodrome closed by 1920, 1929 bought back by the Air Ministry and opened as a bomber station. In the Battle of Britain used as a fighter field, and aircraft test centre. I have a lot more information but not enough pictures, so this section is incomplete and will need updating as I can get new pictures.
30/10/2008
New RAF Calshot, Hampshire, England where seaplanes & flying boats once ruled the runways, yes they were runways although on water. Lawrence of Arabia, Princess, Sunderland, Southampton's, Walrus flying boats, Supermarine S6b, Fairey IIIf's, Camel, F5's seaplanes, Schneider Cup races, the RAF, RFC, RN, was all here. Now its the RNLI, sports men/women, bicycles, ski/snow boarders, kite/surfers, bird spotters & beach huts, RFC/RAF air & boats crews, pilots, engineers, ERKS and people from Tristan da Cunha.
20/10/2008
Updated RAF Redhill, RAF Biggin Hill, RAF Kenley, Surrey, England all Battle of Britain airfield finished writing the histories.
19/10/2008
New RAF Redhill, Surrey, England a Battle of Britain airfield finished just the history to write.
19/10/2008
Updated RAF Biggin Hill, Surrey, England a Battle of Britain airfield finished the history now.
05/09/2008
Updated STP Norbert, Rue Robelin, north east of Calais, France. I have updated the information (thanks Bart) and reset the layout.
03/09/2008
New RAF Biggin Hill, Surrey, England a Battle of Britain airfield finished just the history to write.
30/09/2008
New RAF Kenley, Surrey, England a Battle of Britain airfield. Sat on the top of a hill surrounded by what is now the bottom half of London, it makes a lovely walk around the perimeter track and there is lots to see if you search it out. There are two Picket Hamilton pillboxes to find (we did not) and a few more bits that we missed but we found enough on a very sunny Sunday in September.
17/09/2008
I have been spending time today on the left hand menu and I now think its working ok.
17/09/2008
New Tolverne Hard a D-day loading Hard for the 29th Inf. Div. for Omaha Beach in Cornwall, England.
01/09/2008
Updated with new information about a crash at RAF Westonzoyland, Somerset where in the mortuary there is some pencil writing on the wall. A Meteor T.Mk 7 crashed at Lypsham, Somerset and somebody has written the details on the wall. Thank you James for your help via AIX.
01/09/2008
Updated a gradual update of Battery Hamburg, Fermanville, Cherbourg. This is ongoing, I have the main four emplacements finished, the 2cm AA bunker finished.
24/08/2008
Updated with some new details & added pictures RAF Old Sarum, Wiltshire.
(This is MY photograph 13 August 2003, 16:24:26.)
14/08/2008
Updated and adjusted Wn113 Pont de Saire, Wn115 Pointe de Saire & Wn116 Rers. de Dranguet.
14/08/2008
Correct error RAF Funtington information from Chris via email, thank you Chris for your help.
11/08/2008
Updated with better photos, Wn119 Landemer which covers Wn119a at le Houe (spelt correctly) & Wn119 at Cap.
10/08/2008
Added to Barfleur Wn121, Cherbourg some more details & pictures.
09/08/08
New Battery Vasouy in the area of KVA F Festung Le Havre.
A three gunned battery of three M272 casemates and a very nice M262 Fire Control Post PDT.
06/08/08
New & Updated I have now placed over 122 photos of RNAS St Merryn, HMS Vulture and set it out into four areas. If anybody can help with naming buildings on the airfield I would be very grateful. I have had some help so far and I would like to thank them for all their help.
This is a gas decontamination building at RNAS St Merryn, HMS Vulture. It would have been nice to place some sunny pictures but as it was July when we visited, it rained all **^&x+£ day.
I am gradually updating RNAS St Merryn, HMS Vulture Cornwall.
07/07/08
New Utah Beach Wn16 les Gougins, Quineville, Utah Beach area.
05/07/2008
New Utah Beach Wn11 les Cruttes / Mauger about 5 kilometres north of the museum at Utah Beach.
27/06/2008
Updated The Dorchester to Maiden Newton Stop Line. Last weekend members of the Pillbox Study Group spent most of Saturday cleaning out a Type 22 pillbox.
11/06/2008
Added a link to RAF Davidstow Moor
Pictures of RAF Tarrant Rushton today 06/06/2008
View to the end of the runway where all the aircraft & gliders took off for Normandy.
Site of Control tower
Candle factory burning Blandford from TRushton.
Updated RAF Middle Wallop Hampshire. Bomb Store area.
Adjusted error WN24 to Wn19
26 May 2008
New Wn21 Ostreicole, Quineville Utah Beach area.
26 May 2008
New Wn19 la Maison Rouge, Quineville Utah Beach area.
25 May 2008
New Wn25 Le Polygone, Quineville, Utah Beach area.
23 May 2008
New Wn81 Maisy, Grandcamp Maisy.
22 May 2008
New Wn82 Marais, Maisy.
We did not visit this site but I managed a long range photo.
21 May 2008
New Wn87 Marais, Maisy.
20 May 2008
New Wn88 Casino, Maisy.
20 May 2008
New Wn89? Le Bas Gefosse Maisy.
Some small ammunition niche's?
New Wn90 La Dune, Isigny-sur-Mer, Maisy.
18 May 2008
New Wn93 Isigny-sur-Mer Carentan. A small Wn on the River Aure near
its mouth into the Grand Vey between Utah & Omaha Beaches.
Isigny-sur-Mer
17 May 2008
New Wn99 Brevands, Carentan. A Wn with several Vf bunkers.
21 April 2008
New La Gravette Coast Guard Lookout
which also has French pre-war defences, some pillboxes & a Tobruk holding a gate up.
21 April 2008
New information about RAF Grove
L4 Grasshoppers were made ready to fly over the channel to Normandy from here.
20 April 2008
New AOK 1 Vendee - Charente Maritime
U-Boat Pens at La Pallice/La Rochelle
after a visit in November 2007.
12 March 2008
New Yorkshire RAF Acaster Malbis 'A' Class bomber airfield.
12 March 2008
Tidied up Dorset area RAF Hurn & added some BAC 1-11 pictures.
10 March 2008
Tidied up Devon area RAF Winkleigh .
09 March 2008
Tidied up Hampshire area Needs Oar Point ALG used by RAF Typhoons for D-day.
09 March 2008
Tidied up Hampshire area Lymington ALG used by USAAF Mustangs for D-day.
4 March 2008
Tidied up Cornwall area RAF Davidstow Moor & RAF Cleave
have been tidied up.
21 February 2008
Updated Somerset area RAF Charlton Horethorne RNAS HMS Heron II
has been tidied up.
19 February 2008
Updated Oxford area RAF Stanton Harcourt after our last visit in February 2008 I have added some more details.
19 February 2008
New a link to a website dedicated to POW's who built three tunnels at
Stalag Luft III. On my links page under POW's.
19 February 2008
New Oxford area RAF Barford St John south of Banbury, where No.19 OTU trained crews on Vickers Wellington's. We found an operations block in reasonable condition.
15 February 2008
New Oxford area RAF Enstone east of Chipping Norton, where No.21 OTU trained crews on Vickers Wellington's.
04 February 2008 New Contents page now includes Les anciens aérodromes
A French website on airfields in France from WW1, WW2 and Luftwaffe occupation. From Laurent Balleul.
New Vendee - Charente Maritime StP Ro429 Karola/ Ro454 Kathe & Ro425 Kora Ile de Re has now been finished.
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123 pages, more than 150 photos, plans & maps.
23 January 2008 Update RAF Holmsley South re-visited in Jan 2008 and found the operations block & pictures added.
11 January 2008 New Les anciens aérodromes
A French website on airfields in France from WW1, WW2 and Luftwaffe
occupation as well. From Laurent Balleul
11 January 2008
New Vendee - Charente Maritime StP Ro426 Karla on the north west of the island at St-Clement des Baleines.
09 January 2008
New Vendee - Charente Maritime StP Ro414 Fanny La Noue - Les Grenettes a small StP with an interesting double gun bunker.
07 January 2008
New Vendee - Charente Maritime StP Ro422 Isle La Martray,
Ile de Re. An StP located in a XVII cent. French fort.
07 January 2008
New Vendee - Charente Maritime WN Ro415 Gerda Bois Plage, Ile de Re.
A small Wn.
03 January 2008 Happy New Year
New AOK 1 Vendee - Charente Maritime des Sablanceaux, Ile de Re Ro409Betty now finished. I am still working on Ro429Karola as its such a large site it will take a bit of time.
31 December 2007 New
AOK 1 Vendee - Charente Maritime
So111 Ile Noirmoutier - So115 Ile Noirmoutier - So106 Ile Noirmoutier
29 December 2007 Updates and New.
New I have just placed AOK 1
Vendee - Charente Maritime So106 Ile Noirmoutier and
I will place two more sites on Noirmoutier very soon. I am dabbling in Ile de Re as well but this will take a bit of time as the site of Wn's Ro429 Karola,
Ro454 Kathe & Ro425 Kora are very large with lots of bunkers and gun sites. I have also continued with the contents pages and corrected (I hope) all the errors!
10
December , 2007 Updated I
have updated the index, France has been
redesigned and increased in area from Pas de Calais
to Vendee - Charente Maritime. South
of England airfields now has two in Yorkshire, five in from Nottinghamshire.
Lots of updated items. Defence of Britain now
has AA gun sites, Radar stations, Auxiliary Hides. Miscellaneous
has Fuel Storage from three sites, Camps used
prior to D-Day, Several bombing ranges with more to come.
12
November , 2007 Updated RAF
Netheravon and Everleigh
MU Wiltshire with
some newer pictures and more history.
09
November , 2007 Updated RAF
New Zealand farm in Wiltshire
with some newer pictures and more history.
09
November , 2007 Updated RAF
Keevil in Wiltshire
with some newer pictures and more history.
07
November , 2007 Corrected
errors about Grand
Be-St Malo Ra276 in Brittany.
06
November , 2007 Updating RAF
Broadwell in Oxfordshire this
is an ongoing project for the next week or two.
05
November , 2007 New Barnstaple
Aerodrome 1933 then & now in Devon
although strictly not an RAF base the airfield does become part of RAF
Chivenor's aircraft dispersal area. Two of the 1933 hangars are still
in place and the civilian flying control/watch office has been turned
into a bungalow.
29
October , 2007 Updated RAF
Yatesbury in Wiltshire
has been updated with some newer pictures and more history.
28
October , 2007 Updated RAF
Zeals in Wiltshire, we
were invited by the owner to look at a compass that had been painted
on the ceiling of the control tower. I have also updated with some newer
pictures and more history.
08
October , 2007 Updated RAF
Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire, I
have tidied up some of the pictures, added many more and updated the
text.
30
September, 2007 Updated RAF
Blakehill Farm & RAF
Wroughton in Wiltshire, I
have tidied up some of the pictures and added a few small details and
located the gun butts at RAF Wroughton.
30
September, 2007 Updated RAF
Stations in Gloucester I
have tidied up some of the pictures and added a few small details.
27
September, 2007 Updated RAF
Akeman Street, Stanton
Harcourt,
Windrush,
Bibury, Kingston
Bagpuize, Grove, Tangmere & Broadwell I
have tidied up some of the pictures and added a few small details.
25
September, 2007 Updated RAF
Long Marston & Stratford I
have tidied up some of the pictures and added a few small details.
20
September, 2007 New RNAS
Yeovilton HMS Heron a Navy airfield
in Somerset has had its old control tower replaced with a brand new
one, I have visited both towers and this is a record of that
visit.
11
September, 2007 New Portishead
Fuel depot defended by the guns
of Portishead AA West.
10
September, 2007 New Portishead
AA site East a battery of four 3.7 Vickers
AA guns in concrete emplacements with ammunition magazine, control
post bunker and ancillary buildings.
10
September, 2007 New Portishead
AA site West a battery of four 3.7 Vickers
AA guns in concrete emplacements with ammunition magazines and a
control post bunker.
2
September,
2007 New Ra104
Pointe du Grouin Brittany. Defence of a Wurzburg
Riese radar site.
31 August 2007 New Dieppe
West Die06 & Die09. & Dieppe
East Die02 defence bunkers for the port and
two 88mm Flak bunkers. Also giving some idea of where the Dieppe Raid
of August 1942 took place.
29 August 2007 New Dieppe,
Mont Robin Die08, Die010, Die011. has
been added. It covers the large radar, fighter control & AA control
bunkers (not inside I am afraid) and the defence's around them.
27 August 2007 New Dieppe,
Quiberville Church added,
has several airman's graves in it, one Polish, one Australian and the
rest British.
21 August 2007 New KVA
E Dieppe added
with so far three sites Dieppe,
StP Marg03, Wn
Mar05 & an AA site and Dieppe,
St Marguerite-sur-Mere where in 1942 4
Commando landed
in on Orange beach in the the ill fated Dieppe Raid.
25
July 2007 New RAF
Rufforth Yorkshire,
a Bomber station and HCU with mostly Halifax's.
25 July 2007 Updated RNAS
Henstridge Dorset,
updated with new information and the latest photos.
26 June 2007 Updated RAF
Membury Berkshire,
updated with new information kindly emailed to me this week. Thank
you.
Uploaded
a link to the USS Corry, a destroyer that had to work outside the smoke
screen cover (due to the aircraft laying its screen was shot down) and
sunk at 6.30 on D-day.
12 April 2007 New RAF
Marston Moor Yorkshire
was an Operational Conversion Unit equipped with Halifax heavy bombers.
29 March 2007 New Quineville two
HQ bunkers H608 with cupola's (now removed), the HQ post of Colonel
Tripel commander of the 1261/HKAR regiment.
13 March 2007 Update and sort out errors Osteck
Centre/East
04
March 2007 New Wn248?
Lande Saint-Gabriel a French fort on the hill to the south east of
Cherbourg where a Fire Control Post looks out over the port.
03
March 2007 Updated & New Stp154
Battery Gatteville 7/HKAR1261 a four casemated battery
in H679's with a fire control post, six open emplacements, several ammunition
and group bunkers.
28
February 2007 New StP277 Amfreville
Est Battery York a four 170mm gun casemated battery in M271's with
a large fire control post, hospital, etc. overlooking the west side of
Cherbourg
harbour.
25
February 2007 New Wn201
Port Pignot a
small harbour to the east of Cherbourg.
22
February
2007 New Battery
Judee 'Ostmark' a battery of four H669 Casemates covering the port
of Cherbourg.
10
February 2007 New/Update Osteck
Centre/East to the east of Cherbourg where there are approximately
50 bunkers of many differing types. We found several AA bunkers, two
radar bunkers, water reservoirs, views and more.
04
February 2007 New Cosqueville
Battery to the east of Cherbourg where two 76mm guns were mounted
in field positions.
20
January 2007 New RAF
Selsey ALG West Sussex. An Air Landing Ground used for D-day, also
the church of St Wilfrid with several military burials and a possible
AA site.
20
January 2007 New RAF
Funtington ALG West Sussex. An Air Landing Ground used for D-day.
16
January 2007 New Battery
Plouharnel Anti Aircraft Are a 34cm Naval railway gun battery located
on Quiberon Peninsular, Southern Brittany.
16
January 2007 New Middlebere
Air Raid Shelter a very small air raid shelter of no particular
importance, almost superfluous. But this
building could have saved lives of a very few people on a small farm,
in a vast war covering the whole world.
07
January 2007 New Battery
Plouharnel Fire Control Post Area a 34cm Naval railway gun
battery located on Quiberon Peninsular, southern Brittany.
03
January 2007 New Battery
Plouharnel Ammunition Area a
34cm Naval railway gun battery located on Quiberon
Peninsular, Southern Brittany.
27
December 2006 New KVGr
Camaret Battery Grand Gouin
1/1274 HKAA Cr 342 a Naval battery located on a cliff top covering the Crozon
peninsular.
13
December 2006 New KVGr
Camaret Battery Kerbonn
4/MAA 262 Cr 346 a Naval battery located on a cliff top covering
the Crozon peninsular.
13
December 2006 added Grand-Be added
a picture.
20
November 2006 New Gavres
Fort a fort covering
the entrance to Lorient harbour in southern brittany. Not exactly part
of the Atlantikwall but a very interesting building.
14
November 2006 A New link to Paul Francis's airfield photos. For this
he is using Photobucket at http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/norwichpaul
30 October,
2006 Update & New Cape
Frehel 'Goldfisch'- La318 several
radars and a defence system and a large Mammut radar
bunker, a 2cm emplacement and trenches.
19
October, 2006 New Ponte
de la Garde Guérin StP145 is a point of rock sticking
out into the sea to the west of St malo, Brittany's north coast. A
fortified hill built
originally
by the French on the Maginot line principal but the war arrived and
the work was taken over by the Todt Organization.
14 October,
2006 New StP12/Wn11
Utah Beach after
a visit this month we found several group bunkers,
tobruk's, etc at Wn11.
28 September,
2006 New Wn128
Plage du Vicq a
continuation of the Wn's along the north Cotentin coast.
27 September,
2006 New Plymouth-Maker
Barracks Heavy Anti-aircraft battery sighted
to overlook Plymouths naval port, Cornwall. Six 3.7inch gun emplacements
and a command post.
25 September,
2006 New Plymouth-Fuel
Depot
Cremyll during
the buildup for D-day this fuel depot I believe supplied many US
landing craft.
Plymouth was one of the main bases
in the south of England used for the attack on Utah Beach, D-day.
09 September,
2006 New CWGC
Plousecat on the north western Brittany
coast is a cemetery to the 84 Canadian seaman from HMCS Athabaskan
who died just before D-day in a night action against german destroyers & E-
boat's.
08 September,
2006 New KVGr Morlaix with Mo96
Roscoff the furthest western port on the north
Brittany coast.
06 Update with new information Grand
Be an island in the bay just off St Malo Brittany.
A small defence area, was captured by the Americans in the fighting for
St Malo.
01 September,
2006 New Frehel
-Pleherel-La320 a
wilderstand on a point sticking out into the Atlantic Ocean covering the
beach at Pleherel and south of the Cape Frehel radar site. Cape Frehel
radar is my next task I am just about to start.
01 September,
2006 New KVGr
Lamballe due to
a visit to Cape Frehel I have added KVGR Lamballe.
31 August,
2006 New Grand
Be an island in the bay just off St Malo Brittany.
A small defence area, was captured by the Americans in the fighting for
St
Malo.
18 August,
2006 New Aldbourne & Easy
Company situated
S/E of Swindon near two RAF/USAAF transport airfields of RAF
Membury & RAF Ramsbury. Aldbourne was the home of Easy
Company, 506th, 101st Airborne before they left for Normandy. Also
I have added some aerial photos of the Normandy coast, the fields around
Brecourt
Manor, and Carentan.
30
July, 2006 Updated & many
new pictures of RAF
Charmy Down Bath Somerset. I revisited it this
month and managed to cover a bit more ground.
8 July, 2006 NEW RAF
Long Newnton Wiltshire. Started as an MU
for the storage of ammunition, then onto a Q site for RAF Kemble, opened
as an training airfield until 1945 and as most airfields, closed. It
has some very interesting buildings.
11 July, 2006 NEW Cherbourg
Wn208 one of the defence's of Festung Cherbourg
on the eastern side of the harbour wall.
11 July, 2006 NEW RAF
Predannack Cornwall.
Right down on the Lizard peninsular is a very large airfield that
still has all its runways, perimeter tracks, operations block, nearly
all its fighter pens and a launch track for Barnes Wallis Swallow swing
wing project.
28 June , 2006 NEW Pernelle sitting
on the top of an escarpment to the east of Cherbourg with views over
St-Vaast-la-Hougue, on a good day all the way to the Seine bay and
the port of Le Havre
and
down to Omaha and Utah beaches. Although there were two batteries and
a radar here I have only covered the area of Wn141 the centre of Pernelle
with the Church, H666, fire control post and an H608 battle HQ bunker.
22 June , 2006 New Battery
Ouest D' Amfreville a
French fort incorporated into the Atlantikwall defence's of Cherbourg.
20 June ,
2006 Updated Bretteville
Wn241 another French fort which was used as an
AA training camp and has a unique French fire control post.
19 June
, 2006 Updated Omaha
Beach Wn 60 we visited Wn60 again in March 2006
and found that the authorities had cut back the undergrowth to show where
more trenches ran.
19 June, 2006 New Le
Bas De Rue Du Nez Wn224
Urville-Nacqueville a converted
French fort to the west of Cherbourg port.
15 June, 2006 New V1
No.18 Mesnil-Au-Val Search
Light house.
14 June, 2006 New Fort
les Mont's a French
Artillery Fort prewar and a Luftwaffe 88mm AA Battery in 1944.
Also I have added details of a battle which took place near the
Fort in June 1944.
07 June, 2006 Updated RAF
Chilbolton after
a visit on the 05/06/2006.
06 June, 2006 New RAF
Merryfield Somerset,
designed as a bomber OTU was never use as such. The USAAF used
Merryfield to transport members of the 101st Airborne to Normandy as
it did Membury.
01 June, 2006 I
have just counted up how many sites the website covers and in France it
is 100 (Atlantikwall/V1/V2/Omaha & Utah etc.) and South of England
114 Airfields/defence against invasion/D-day Camps/radar etc.
01 June, 2006 New RAF
Membury Berkshire,
designed as a bomber OTU was never use as such. The USAAF used
Membury to transport members of the 101st Airborne to Normandy.
22
May, 2006 Updated Overton
Heath RLG after a
visit 21/05/2006 we found more of this interesting little airfield.
22 May, 2006 New Battr
Ouest D'Amfreville A
French fort to the west of Cherbourg.
18 May, 2006 New Battr
St Martin de Varreville Utah Beach, Normandy. A four open emplacement
battery
but damaged beyond
repair on D-day.
16 May, 2006 New Battr
Ozouville Cherbourg, Normandy.
A four casemate battery with only two built before D-day.
21 April, 2006 New Ra104
Pointe du Grouin Brittany. defence of a Wurzburg Riese radar
site
.18
April, 2006 New V1
launch site No144 Manche, Normandy. One of the light V1 launch
sites cunningly set into a farm yard.
17 April, 2006 New Maisy
1 & 2 Wn83/84 two gun batteries
at south Grandcamp of 105mm and 155mm.
16 April,
2006 New Utah
Beach Wn14 .
26 March, 2006 New Utah
Beach Wn1 Le Grand Vey
.
26 March, 2006 New RAF
Melksham in Wiltshire.
25 March, 2006 New RAF
Down Ampney in Gloucestershire.
24 March, 2006 New RAF
Hampstead Norris in
Berkshire.
15 March,
2006 New Bushes
Farm Auxiliary
Unit Hide in Dorset.
15 March,
2006 New Spetisbury Auxiliary
Unit Hide in Dorset.
14
March, 2006 New RAF
Hurn in Dorset.
12
March, 2006 New Guernsey
Underground Hospital &
Ammunition Store .
16 January,
2006 New Came
Park Auxiliary Unit Hide in Dorset.
12
January, 2006New Brean
Down Bombing Range in Somerset.
10
January, 2006New Camp
D-10, 11 & 12 in Dorset
D-Camps
were marshalling camps for troops before D-day.
05
January, 2006New Camp
D-4 Came Park in Dorset
D-Camps
were marshalling camps for troops before D-day.
03
January , 2006 New RAF
Dinton - RAF Chilmark Wiltshire.
A
tour of several RAF and wartime USAAF Ordnance Depots.
01
January , 2006 Updated RAF
New Zealand Farm
Wiltshire.
Added some pictures of Imber village and some extra details
found
on a second visit Dec 2005.
29
December, 2005 New RAF
Trerew Radar Site
Cornwall.28
December, 2005 Updated Kimmeridge
Bay Defence's Dorset.It
is one I started some time ago and have been back
several times and keep finding
more.26
December, 2005 New RAF
St Mawgan Cornwall.26
December, 2005 New RNAS St Merryn HMS Vulture Cornwall.23
December, 2005 New RAF
Weston-Super-Mare Somerset.20
December, 2005 Updated RAF
Tarrant Rushton Dorset
with
many new pictures.13
December, 2005 New RAF
Westonzoyland Somerset.10
December, 2005 New RAF
Middle Wallop Hampshire.7
December, 2005 New RAF
Merston Sussex.28
November , 2005 New
RAF Thruxton Hampshire.28
November , 2005 New
RAF Andover Hampshire.23
November , 2005 New RAF
Winthorpe Newark Air Museum Nottinghamshire.15
November , 2005 New Langar
Robins Hangar Nottinghamshire.
A possible Super
Robins Hangar sitting in a field at Langar
15
November , 2005 New RAF
Langar Nottinghamshire.13
November , 2005 New RAF
Orston Nottinghamshire.13
November , 2005 New RAF
Syerston Nottinghamshire.12
November , 2005 New RAF
Perranporth Cornwall.05
November , 2005 New RAF
Portreath Cornwall.02
November , 2005 New Fort
du Roule Souterraine01
November , 2005 New Wn115
Pointe de Saire continuation of Wn115
Rers de Dranguet.
.28
October , 2005 New Wn115
Rers de Dranguet an H612 casemate that was hit by
a 14/15inch
shell
from a battleship.28
October , 2005 Update Wn119a/119
Landemer
I have updated with extra information.17
October , 2005 New
Omaha Beach Wn 60 to Wn 73I have now placed nearly
all the Wn's at Omaha Beach plus
the two cemeteries.03
October , 2005 Update Everleigh
RLG
Super Robin hangar
has been re-clad.01
October , 2005 New Antiaircraft
Towers at the
Royal
Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, Dorset.06
September , 2005 Update RAF
Davidstow Moor
Mr.
David Keast is opening a museum and has and has written a book.04
September , 2005 New Great
Dorset Steam Fair 200510
August , 2005 Updated RAF
Winkleigh Devon
with information
from
the airfield plan.28
July , 2005 New RAF
Aston Down Gloucester
an expansion period
airfield used as a MU and storage. 26
July , 2005 New RNAS
Ford Sussex
a WW1,Battle of Britain airfield and then a Royal Naval air station.25
July , 2005 New RAF
Kemble Gloucester an
expansion period airfield used as a MU and storage. 19
July , 2005 Updated RAF
Tangmere Sussex
a WW1,an expansion period airdrome and one of the main Battle of Britain
airfields in the south.09
July , 2005 Updated RAF
Broadwell , Oxfordshire. After another visit in June 2005 we walked around
the north and N/W of the airfield
which
included the runways, several buildings and the bomb dump.03
July , 2005 New Cap
Blanc Nez, France.03
July , 2005 New Cap
Gris Nez, France.02
July , 2005 New
Wn 207 /Wn
211 Wimereux
Cap
Gris Nez, France.29
June , 2005 New Manningford
RLG Wiltshire.29
June , 2005 New Overton
Heath RLG Wiltshire.29
June , 2005 New Alton
Barnes RLG Wiltshire.28
June , 2005 New RAF
Tangmere Sussex
one of the main Battle of Britain airfields in the south.23
June , 2005 New RAF
Hullavington Wiltshire.18
June , 2005 New RAF
Stanton Harcourt Oxfordshire.15
June , 2005 New
RAF Shellingford Berkshire.13
June , 2005 Update
RAF Broadwell Oxfordshire
updated with more photos of the Control Tower.12
June , 2005 New
RAF Thorney Island Sussex.12
June , 2005 New County
of Sussex added.06
June , 2005 New Oakley
Farm RAF Ammunition Depot Wiltshire
I found this camp some years ago and managed to
visit it on the 4th June 2005
and was lucky enough to be allowed to
record its remains.30
May , 2005 New RAF
Kingston Bagpuize Berkshire.29
May , 2005 New RAF
Grove Oxfordshire.29
May , 2005 New link WW2
Airfields of Oxfordshire
good site.28
May , 2005 New Akeman
Street ALG air landing ground in
Oxfordshire.25
May , 2005 Update Airship
Hangar at Ecausseville after
a visit in May
more pictures and information.25
May , 2005 New Wn
Stuttgart just west of Calais.25
May , 2005 New Wn5
Utah Beach where D-day did start.19
May, 2005 New Wn10
Utah Beach just north of where
D-day should have
started.17
May , 2005 New link Roosevelt
Restaurant Utah Beach and the LE HANGAR A DIRIGEABLE
D’ECAUSSEVILLE08
April , 2005 New Babdown
Farm RLG in Gloucestershire,
a small training airfield still with most of its hangars intact.
22
March , 2005 New South of England Ashley
Walk Bombing Range where the fist Grand Slam Bomb was dropped and a complete
U-boat Pen was constructed 20 miles inland from the sea.14
March , 2005 New AOK 15 Pas de Calais, Dunkirchen
and Stp Luise.11
March , 2005 New AOK 15 Pas de Calais, Dunkirchen
and Rue Robelin. An
Antiaircraft site.
11
March , 2005 New AOK 15 Pas de Calais, Dunkirchen
and Stp Max Oye-Plage Battery.
4 x 15cm gun Casemates and one very interesting Fire Control Post.09
March , 2005 New AOK 15 Pas de Calais, Cap Gris Nez
and Battery Todt. 4
x 38cm guns in very large Casemates.
02
March , 2005 link added Bunkers
Be .
21
February , 2005 New Shrewton
RLG in Wiltshire
I have visited it again and placed more photos.
20
February , 2005 New information Oatlands
RLG
I have added more pictures and information about this airfield
19 February
, 2005 New RAF
Holmsley South
Another WW2 airfield with few buildings and little of
the runways remaining except two small sections. Very extensive domestic sites
laid out to the SW hidden in woodland now overgrown.
10
February , 2005 New Camp
D-3 Yellowham in Dorset
D-Camps
were marshalling camps for troops before D-day. 31 January , 2005 Updated
RAF Cleave
in Cornwall
new
pictures have been added to the centre section of items we found in Jan 2005.
31 January
, 2005 New up dated information
RAF Davidstow Moor -- Dispersed Sites A WW2 airfield with Many buildings
remaining and ALL of the runways in place. After a recent visit I have
now placed as many of the Dispersed Sites as I can.
20
January , 2005 New RAF
Stoney Cross
A WW2 airfield with no buildings remaining and very little
of the runways but by using field archaeology you can locate what is there.
17 January
, 2005 New information RAF
Dunkeswell
I have added more pictures and information about the bomb
dump.
31
December , 2004 New RAF
Ibsley DF & VHF Site in Hampshire.
30
December , 2004 Updated RAF
Upottery in Devon
new
pictures and layout.
12
December , 2004 Updated WN
203 Pointe Du Brick
in Normandy
new
pictures and details added.
21 December ,
2004 New Wn313
Vauville west of Cherbourg,
Normandy.
20 December , 2004 New
Wn317
Biville west of Cherbourg,
Normandy.
19 December , 2004 New
part of the defence's of Maupertus
Airfield east of Cherbourg,
Normandy.
14 December , 2004 New
Sqn
Leader P E Drew was shot down
on
the 1st August 1940 and is buried at Biville, Normandy.
12
December , 2004 Updated Battery
Hamburg in Normandy
new
pictures and details added.
02 December ,
2004 Updated RAF
Chedworth in Gloucestershire
some
history added.
01 December , 2004 Updated
Southrop
RLG in Gloucester