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Old 10-02-2012, 12:56 PM
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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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Old 10-02-2012, 01:09 PM
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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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Old 10-02-2012, 01:18 PM
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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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Old 10-02-2012, 01:26 PM
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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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Old 10-02-2012, 01:28 PM
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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
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Old 10-02-2012, 01:30 PM
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Thanks Typhoon, but I meant the aircraft taking the photo. I think I can recognise a Spitty by now
Ahh, t'was a Dornier Do17Z of 9./KG76 which Staffel was attacking at low level, 18 August 1940. (Sorry, it's 2.31 am here and I'm just finishing a major assignment.)
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Old 10-03-2012, 10:37 PM
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Ahh, t'was a Dornier Do17Z of 9./KG76 which Staffel was attacking at low level, 18 August 1940. (Sorry, it's 2.31 am here and I'm just finishing a major assignment.)
Hmmm, is the wartime picture faked? I have it on good authority elsewhere in this forum that vulching was not done on RAF airfields!
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Old 10-02-2012, 01:31 PM
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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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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!
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