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| Lancasters of No. 3 Lancaster Finishing School
in December 1944. (Photo provided by Mervyn McClellan) |
A lone Wellington. Note the bicycle on the left and the guard. The road in the background is Wilton Road. | Harrows parked at the newly opened Feltwell airbase. Probably Spring 1937 and of 214 squadron. (Photo provided by Brian Leet) | This photo from 1941 shows one of Feltwell's 2 camouflaged hangers. These can be seen in the aerial photos below. |
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The tail unit of a Wellington Bomber. Not the result of a crash but of an explosion. Read about it here. |
The Wellingtons were christened "Wimpys" after a cartoon character. Note - the criss-cross (Geodetic) construction of the fuselage, a strengthening feature peculiar to the Wellington and designed by Prof. Barnes Wallis. |
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Left - Inside the Air Traffic Control Tower. Flight Lieutenant H. J. Lawson at the console which came from RAF South Cerney in bits and pieces and which he rebuilt. |
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A Harvard Taxiing. Photo from Derek Routen who spent 18 months during 1948-9 in Block 33, 3 FTS Repair & Maintenance section, HQ Flight. |
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The C.O.'s Harvard
which had been stripped of its yellow trainer paint and polished with 'Brasso'.
All by hand!
Photo from Derek Routen |
| The 4 photos below have waited so long to get onto this page that I've lost the details regarding their source! Help would be appreciated in this matter. | |||
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| This wonderful aerial shot of RAF Feltwell was
taken in 1969.
Click on it to see it full size. With thanks to James M. |
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The same aerial view only this time annotated. Again, click onit to see full size. Thanks, James. |
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novelty! One of the original RAF Feltwell Golf Club membership cards with names of Club officials. From Vic Redmond |
The photographs below were
found at RAF Lakenheath. In many cases nothing is known about them other
than the fact that they were taken at Feltwell, we think. Any additional information would be most welcome. |
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from: DE - Dan Engle RW - Robert Walden AJ - Alan Jarvis JR - John Reid Stirling Bomber Research Library and Photographic Archive. |
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 1Note the camouflaged hangers and the control tower. |
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 3A 199 Squadron crew briefing given by Wing Commander Bray at Lakenheath - JR |
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 6Stirling EF411. OJ-K. 149 Squadron. @ Lakenheath - JR |
 7199 Squadron Sergeants Mess, Lakenheath - JR |
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 9Royal Visit to RAF Lakenheath. 199 Squadron, Stirlings and crews. DE |
 10A Hudson (you can tell by the entrance door design and the shape of the tail cone) - AJ |
 11214 Squadron Harrow A/C D at Feltwell or possibly Empire Air Day RAF Mildenhall 1937 DE |
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 13Visit by Hon. Bill Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand |
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 17464 Squadron Ventura at Feltwell. Copyright Imperial War Museum. DE |
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 21A Lockheed Ventura (?) 1942-43 RW |
 22AJ231, SB-D (see also No. 12)- AJ |
 23AE939 on a mission in Jan, 1943. It flew a total of 19 missions with 464 Sqdn. prior to a landing accident on May 11, 1943. You will notice that the artwork underneath the aircraft code's is original Disney artwork applied by the Disney artists at the factory in Burbank, California. Walt Disney himself encouraged his artists to do this on their off time as the factory was next door to his studios! - AJ |
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 27SB-J, 464 Squadron Ventura - DE This is SB-J, which the crew nicknamed "Joybelle". The nose perspex bottom frame has teeth painted on it. - AJ |
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 Harrows in flight from Michael J F Bowyer |
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This is a Handley Page Heyford at Feltwell circa 1937/38.
The aircraft in the background are Handley Page Harrows which were
resident here at the time. The Heyford must have been on a visit as they
went out of service soon after this picture was taken . Photo from Chris Cock |
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