RAF Kenley
 

A couple of days ago I had a great time wandering around the remnants of the BOB airfield RAF Kenley

A classic image of the luftwaffe "Hardest Day Raid"

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Kenley1940.jpg

That same revetment today:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ley2012jpg.jpg

Wow! What a perspective, looking at the wartime photo, then your recent one! Much is gone, of course, but the revetment looks quite intact, if overgrown a bit.

Thanks for posting this.

Nice pics Ivan!

Hard to make out what the a/c is in the upper shot. Do you know?

Snapper if you have Google Earth, Kenley aerodrome is still in use and a lot of the old revetments are still visible. The street views give a good impression of things too, but from just outside the airfield. :)

From reading Alfred Price's "The hardest day" the top photo was doctored by the Germans to appear in their propaganda magazine Der Adler by adding "bomb bursts":

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k3...0-page-001.jpg

The aircraft is a 64 Sqn Spitfire. Just think who's footsteps you might be standing in Ivan...thanks for sharing!

Thanks Typhoon, but I meant the aircraft taking the photo. I think I can recognise a Spitty by now :D

Ahh, t'was a Dornier Do17Z of 9./KG76 which Staffel was attacking at low level, 18 August 1940. :grin: (Sorry, it's 2.31 am here and I'm just finishing a major assignment.)

S!

Rolf von Pebal in his overflying Dornier Do-17Z took the pic. Says so in the pic description.

Yes, yes thankyou chaps, I saw! I saw! :lol:

It's interesting to see that such low level attacks took place.

"The hardest day" is a must to read. It's only 100 pages long and tell every major events during one single day in the BoB campaign. It has stunning documentation and pictures (like this one).