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RAF Abingdon, Oxford is now like a lot of ex-RAF stations, an Army camp, Dalton Barracks.
Opened September 1932 as a bomber airfield and in October the first planes started to arrive with Fairey Gorden's. 1934 and Hawker Harts arrived. 1936 another hangar was added, a 'C type'.
It took until 1938 for monoplanes to arrive with Fairey Battles and wasn't until 1938 that a real bomber arrived. That was the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley. A twin engined monoplane, really the start of things to come. With power operated gun turrets front and back.. In 1943 10 Operational Conversion Unit (OCT) had 55 Whitley, 11 Anson's, three Lysanders and one Defiant. Up until March 1944 the Whitley had been using the grass runways. Then all planes de camped to RAF Stanton Harcourt and two runways were laid out. By March 1945 Wellingtons were now being used by 10 OCU. By December 1946 and all change, 10 OCU left and RAF Transport Command took over control of the airfield. They brought in Dakotas of 525Sqn.
1947 and the Berlin airlift, Avro Yorks arrived and took a major part in the operation.

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Fairy Gorden.

Fairey Battle.

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley..

Vickers Wellington.

C-47 Dakota..

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1 x Watch Office pos. 5845/39.
1 x Control Tower 2548c/55.
4 X 'A' type sheds (hangars).
1 x 'C type' shed (hangar).
1 x 'F' hangar a post war type.
7 x Spectacle dispersals.
24 x Frying pan dispersals.

'A type' shed.

'C type' shed.

Frying pan dispersal.

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WW2 dispersed aircraft parking on the north side
This can be seen from the minor road. .

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Fairey Battle.

Vickers Wellington parked on a dispersal.

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WW2 dispersed aircraft parking.
There seemed to be quite a few huts around here. This is a possibly a Turner corrugated asbestos hut.

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WW2 dispersed aircraft parking.
Small 16ft Nissen hut.

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WW2 dispersed aircraft parking.
I think this is a post war hut, made of a steel frame and sheeted in corrugated cement asbestos.

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Perimeter/connecting track on the western side.
We walked the western side only.

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Control tower type 2548c/55 (1955).
At the far end was the 1955 control tower. This type had a VCR on the top and that gave it a 360° view.

Visual Control Room (VCR)

Original watch office, still in situ.

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Control tower type 2548c/55 (1955)

Blackburn Beverley.

Avro Vulcan.

Gloster Meteor.

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Control tower type 2548c/55 (1955)

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M&E plinth, post war type.

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A red building sat out on the airfield. Use unknown.

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The next building we found, another post war type.

It was placed in its own earth berm to protect it or the area around it?

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The next building we found, another post war type.

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The next building we found, another post war type.
Inside and it looks as though it had a lot of communications type of equipment.

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The next building we found, another post war type.

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Main Gate.
We did not get even close to the main camp on this visit, just the far side of the airfield.

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This picture was taken before 1936, as the 'C type' shed had not been erected. It shows the very clean lines of an RAF station built in the Pre-war expansion period. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, the RAF needed to expand to compete. Several schemes were devised where airfield construction, training camps, storage units and also a lot of new aircraft.

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Early picture of the Officers Mess.

The Mess, Dalton Barracks
Dalton Barracks is the base of three regiments of the Royal Logistic Corps.
It was originally a Royal Air Force base, opened in 1932 and known as RAF Abingdon. The station was closed in December 1992. It was taken over by the Army and renamed Dalton Barracks in honour of James Langley Dalton (a member of the Army Commissary Corps who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry at Rorke’s Drift, Zululand, 1879).
Medium: Watercolour
Printed image size(s): B2 only (58 x 38 cm)
Owner: Officers Mess, Dalton Barracks
Price(s): £70

The modern soldier.

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Flight line, the main hangar site.
4 x 'A type' sheds.
1 x 'C type' shed.
1 x triple 'F type' hangar.

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The view of two of the four 'A type' sheds of the original airfield layout.
Opened in 1932 with four 'A type' sheds (not hangars, they were still being called sheds by the RAF). were built in a crescent shape looking over the grass airfield. Behind was the technical area and behind that, the communal and married quarters.

'A type' shed, 246ft by 122ft, with four full span opening doors and ridge and valley roof. Steel framed and brick walls, with windows high along the walls.

Fairy Battle.

Whitley.

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A modern storage unit built for the army, with an A shed on the left. The large red brick tower on the right and the camps water tower and heating plant. Heated by coke or coal, this plant would heat most of the camp through underground heating piping.

Inside the C Shed with Tony Blair.

Royal Logistics Corps flag.

Driver Driver.

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Watch Office with Met Section (Brick) Air Ministry Drawing Number : 5845/39

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Day in the life of an extra on Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg set at Dalton Barracks. Picture: Eirian Jane Prosser

From Masters of the Air.

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'C type' Shed.
Designed in 1934 as a replacement for the A shed, for home stations. Hipped ends and fully opening doors.

Inside a C type shed.

Door opening handle.

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'F type' hangar.

Inside the 'F type' hangar, a large long building built for the RAF's fleet of Blackburn Beverley

A sound recording of inside this hangar.

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Beverley at RAF Old Sarum.

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Army rifle range butts. A modern range. The original RAF one from the 1930's was removed and built over.

A google image of the butts.

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