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 | Located next to the M4 motorway at the Membury services.
Membury is the highest point on the M4 between London and the Severn Bridge
It has a 152.4 m (500 ft) high guyed steel lattice mast. It was constructed in 1965 |  | 03/12/2007 | 158 | 
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 | Note the many CG-4A gliders on the airfield.
Welford airfield (also called Welford Park) was built as one of the many Operational Training Unit airfields for the Southern Counties and was intended originally as a base for No 92 group Bomber Command. The original design called for a standard RAF 3 runway layout with the main runway of 2000ft aligned NW/SE to be a satellite airfiel... | | 06/01/2008 | 280 |
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 | Portion of a Luftwaffe airfield in a photo taken on August 6, 1944 from a Spitfire MK XI of the 7th PRG.
There are some Heinkel He 177 in the splitter boxes at teh middle left side. Also four Fighter (Bf 109?) in the upper right sector, maybe it's the airfield security swarm. | | 12/19/2008 | 401 |
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 | This photo is from an aerial record compiled by the government in 1944 and shows Wanstead Park and surrounds on 7 August 1944. The H.E. and V1 damage to Heronry Pond can be seen, plus V1 damage in Tennyson Avenue and in Wanstead Park Avenue (just in East Ham but dealt with by Wanstead CD). What appears to be a heavy anti-aircraft battery can also be seen on Wanstead Flats. | | 06/06/2008 | 322 |
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 | The train of Tank cars attacked at this point by 2 Group on the night of 6/7 August 1944 is completely burned out. No truck count is possible but the train is approx. 820 feet long. Both tracks are blocked temorarily. | | 10/22/2008 | 225 |
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 | The Avro Type 694 Lincoln was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War, first flying on 9 June 1944 and entering service in August 1945, too late to be used in action. The last piston-powered bomber built for the RAF, a total of 604 were built.
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 | Former Finnish Air Force aerodrome now used by the Soviet Air Force at Hallinkangas on 10th August 1944.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 12 |
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 | With the advent of World War II the landing area was increased to around 3,000 ft north to south and 4,500 ft east to west in the early months of the war. An asphalt perimeter track and several hardstands for aircraft parking followed and in 1941 hard-surfaced runways were put down. These were 4,350 ft aligned 13-31, 4,070 ft aligned 08-26 and 2,700 ft at 02-20.
In 1942, the 08-... | | 06/01/2008 | 299 |
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 | RAF Twinwood Farm is a former World War II airfield in England, located 4 miles N of Bedford. Twinwood Farm was where USAAF Major Glenn Miller aircraft took off on 15 December 1944 for Paris. His plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Twinwood_Farm | | 08/31/2009 | 29 |
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 | Bombed by the RAF May 1944. | | 02/11/2007 | 210 |
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 | The tri-base area constituting the 423d Air Base Squadron is composed of RAF Alconbury, RAF Molesworth and RAF Upwood, United Kingdom. | | 12/20/2005 | 351 |
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 | 11/12 September 1944
Darmstadt: 226 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitos of No 5 Group. 12 Lancasters lost, 5.3 per cent of the Lancaster force. A previous No 5 Group attack in August had failed to harm Darmstadt but, in clear weather conditions, the group's marking methods produced an outstandingly accurate and concentrated raid on this almost intact city of 120,000 people. A fierce fire... |  | 10/19/2005 | 629 |
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