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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" ![]() That same revetment today: ![]() |
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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.
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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. ![]() |
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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":
![]() The aircraft is a 64 Sqn Spitfire. Just think who's footsteps you might be standing in Ivan...thanks for sharing! |
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Rolf von Pebal in his overflying Dornier Do-17Z took the pic. Says so in the pic description. |
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