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Vickers Wellingtons and Avro Ansons of No.12 Operational Training Unit RAF were here until April 1943, when it became No. 13 OTU with the North American Mitchell's. In May 1943 they were joined by the Douglas Bostons of No. 307 Ferry Training Unit RAF, with both units remaining until closure. No. 17 OTU Gunnery Flight began arriving in July 1943 with Wellingtons, and formed fully in November 1943 with a flight of Miles Martinets.
Vickers Wellington.
Vickers Wellington.
Avro Anson..
Avro Anson..
North American Mitchell.
North American Mitchell.
Miles Martinets.
Miles Martinets.
Douglas Boston.
Douglas Boston.

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RAF air photo 04 June 1942.

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Domestic site Small domestic site of several temporary brick huts & two Stanton air-raid.

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Living site.
Living site.
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Domestic site

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Stanton air-raid shelter entrance and the base of an old hut. Count the shelters and multiply by about 32men for blast shelters & 50men for Stanton and you then you know how many people lived on the site. Here we have at least two, so we may have had as many as 100men.

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Stanton shelter.

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Stanton air-raid shelter.

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Second Stanton shelter behind the new hut

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Second Stanton shelter entrance.

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The domestic site from the MG Butts.

03 March 2013

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One of the 27 heavy bomber dispersals with the 25yd machine gun range (Butts).

03 March 2013

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25yd machine gun range.

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25yd machine gun range.

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How they would have looked.
How they would have looked.
Firring point.
Firring point.

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Shooting butts end now demolished.

03 March 2013

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Shooting butts flag pole still in place.

03 March 2013

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Pole.
Pole.
The pole base.
The pole base.

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Stanton air raid shelter.

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Stanton air raid shelter inside.

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Main E/W runway

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Northern perimeter track

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Airfield defence.

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How it may have looked.
How it may have looked.

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Aircraft dispersal one of three here

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Circular or frying pan dispersal.
Circular or frying pan dispersal.
A Halifax sat on a dispersal.
A Halifax sat on a dispersal.

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Perimeter track and runway

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Runway & perimeter.
Runway & perimeter.
Perimeter track contact light fitting.
Perimeter track contact light fitting.

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Part of the NE/SW runway' Now half of this runway is taken up with farm buildings and the flying club buildings the other way.

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Drainage without a cover..
Drainage without a cover..
Drainage with a cover.
Drainage with a cover.

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Perimeter track

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Looking up the NW/SE at the NE/SW Runway

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Modern control tower.

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Turweston Aerodrome.
Turweston Aerodrome.

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Perimeter track Showing its 50ft width.

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Control tower. Watch Office for Bomber Satellite and OTU Stations 13726/41.

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View from inside the tower, showing that the whole airfield could be seen from here.

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Control tower. Watch Office for Bomber Satellite and OTU Stations 13726/41.

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WAAF code & cypher room..
WAAF code & cypher room..
Met office,
Met office,
Control room.
Control room.

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Control tower. Watch Office for Bomber Satellite and OTU Stations 13726/41.

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Bomb store plan. A full 'A' class bomb store.

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Bomb store.
Bomb store.
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Delivering bombs.
Delivering bombs.

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Aircraft dispersal & bomb store A Romney hut fusing point, Blue on the map & the Red square is where the bomb store was situated and a fuzing point is still in situ.

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Aircraft dispersal and route to the bomb store

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Set next to one of the dispersal is a Romney hut fuzing point.
Set next to one of the dispersal is a Romney hut fuzing point.

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Bomb store road looking at the airfield. The bomb store roadway leading from the airfield, it is also now the HGV road out of the airfield. On the right was another fuzing point now completely covered in undergrowth.

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Bomb store road.

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Component & fuze store. The component & fuze store that would hold fuze's & detonators. These may have been designed to have earth traverse

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Fuze.
Fuze.
Fuze.
Fuze.

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Temporary brick bomb fuzing point, The second fuzing point shed is either a 4735/42 (if it was equipped as an Ultra Heavy) or a 4778/42 if equipped as a Heavy/Light. (Details from Peter Hamlin).

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Fuzing point.
Fuzing point.
Fitting fuzes.
Fitting fuzes.
Knitting comes in handy when waiting.
Knitting comes in handy when waiting.

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Fuzing point (Ultra heavy) 4735/42.

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Fuzing point (Ultra heavy) 4735/42.

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Tail fins.
Tail fins.
Loading bombs.
Loading bombs.

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Bomb store road.

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Bomb store detritus

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Plan of the bomb store as it was.. Purple - buildings removed.. Red - buildings extant. 1,2,3 & 4 - bomb stores. I - incendiary bomb stores.
Plan of the bomb store as it was.. Purple - buildings removed.. Red - buildings extant. 1,2,3 & 4 - bomb stores. I - incendiary bomb stores.

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Component & fuze store. It looks like this side wall has been strengthened to add an earth traverse to help with blast or its double in size and this side has been demolished????? Component Store to 4733/42 with one compartment for Detonators and Fuze and the other for Bomb Pistols.

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Component & fuze store

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Elevation.
Elevation.
250lb general purpose GP bomb tail pistol No.28 & 30.
250lb general purpose GP bomb tail pistol No.28 & 30.

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Barbed wire picket post.

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There must have been a barbed wire fence all around the bomb store.
There must have been a barbed wire fence all around the bomb store.

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Lump of concrete in the woods???

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Bomb Store.

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How this area would have looked,
How this area would have looked,

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Bomb store road inside the woodland.

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Where two of the four heavy bomb stores would have been.
Where two of the four heavy bomb stores would have been.
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Bomb store. The mounds are the earth traverses that are between the individual bomb stores.

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3146/42 bomb store.
3146/42 bomb store.
Bomb store.
Bomb store.

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Component stores base. There were two component stores and an earth travers between them.

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Component stores.
Component stores.
Component stores. RAF Finmere.
Component stores. RAF Finmere.

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Bomb store roadway.

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Bomb store roadway.
Bomb store roadway.

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Communal sites. Site No.6.

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Communal sites. Site No.6 visited but just in the corner.

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Communal sites air photo 1942 and not yet completed.

AIR 14/3563 01 July 1942

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Site No.6. Stanton shelter.

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Site No.6. Stanton shelter.

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Site No.6. Drainage.

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Site No.6. Another Stanton shelter.

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Site No.6. Another Stanton shelter.

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Entrance to another of the sites..

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Entrance to another of the sites..

AIR 14/3563 01 July 1942

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Early spring a lovely time to be out in the country.
Early spring a lovely time to be out in the country.
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