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Subject: Memorial day in Cambridge UK
From: "Keith Willshaw" Date: 6/2/04 1:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Who'da thunk it. from that little airdrome with one runway and a load of shacks it is now a major airport... Guess I'd never recognise the old field now. But I'll always remember it the way it was. When it wasn't cloaked in a peasouper, it was raining like hell.(sigh) You can see pictures of the modern field at http://www.baapicturelibrary.co.uk/ Keith WOW !!!! From cowpastures do mighty airports grow. It is a beauty To get an idea of wat it looked like during the war see the movie "12 O'Clock High" It looked like the field in that film. Somewhere on the Stansted field is a plaque to the 344th. Is it still there? A photo of the plaque is on my website. If anyone knows, lemme know. Thanks Keith for the website and the great photos. Memories.Always memories. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ... "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Who'da thunk it. from that little airdrome with one runway and a load of shacks it is now a major airport... Guess I'd never recognise the old field now. But I'll always remember it the way it was. When it wasn't cloaked in a peasouper, it was raining like hell.(sigh) You can see pictures of the modern field at http://www.baapicturelibrary.co.uk/ Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- Thanks Keith,....I was searching for a website showing the layout of the airport, you saved me a lot of time ! BMC |
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writes ubject: Memorial day in Cambridge UK From: "Brian Colwell" Date: 6/1/04 2:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: 5%6vc.640170$oR5.170110@pd7tw3no "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: Memorial day in Cambridge UK From: "Keith Willshaw" Any ceremonies at Stansted, the home of the ol' 344th? I dont know but I doubt it Art, Stansted is now a major commercial airport. Originally it was a cowpasture. It got levelled, they lay down a runway and threw up a load of Niessen huts and we (the 344th moved) moved in. Now a major commmercial airport. eh. I guess the ol' 44th left a mark of greatness on that ol' cowpasture. (grin) Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer Art, They now move approx. 200 million passengers a year and it is the 4th busiest aiport in the UK...see what you started :-)) Regards, BMC Who'da thunk it. from that little airdrome with one runway and a load of shacks it is now a major airport... Guess I'd never recognise the old field now. But I'll always remember it the way it was. When it wasn't cloaked in a peasouper, it was raining like hell.(sigh) Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer Here's an extract from the first volume of "Action Stations", covering military airfields in Essex and East Anglia: As long ago as July 4 1942 the 817th US Engineering Air Battalion arrived to build the 1,919-acre airfield, which opened in July 1943, after more engineers had arrived, as an Air Depot for US forces in Britain. By October 1943 an airfield existed with the customary three runways, a main NE/SW 6,000 x 150-foot runway and two subsidiaries, both 2,000 x 150 feet, running roughly NW/SW and N/S. To Stansted came many a Marauder to be prepared for combat in the ETO. But it was the arrival of the 344th Bomb Group with B-26s that really brought the station to life. The Group commenced operations on March 6 1944, flying daylight raids on France, Belgium and Holland and concentrating its attacks on bridges in May 1944. For its July operations it was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation. The Group moved to France in late September 1944, leaving the 30th Air Depot Group in residence. After the war the airfield was used as an American transit centre. On August 12 1945 the Americans moved out and the RAF took over, siting 263 MU here. Some German POWs were held here pending repatriation. The article continues with Stansted's post-war history, both military and civil, up to 1979. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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