RAF Kenley

IvanK · #1 10-02-2012, 01:56 PM

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:

ATAG_Snapper · #2 10-02-2012, 02:09 PM

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.

ATAG_Dutch · #3 10-02-2012, 02:18 PM

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.

NZtyphoon · #4 10-02-2012, 02:26 PM

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!

ATAG_Dutch · #5 10-02-2012, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

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

NZtyphoon · #6 10-02-2012, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch

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.)

ATAG_Snapper · #7 10-03-2012, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

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!

Flanker35M · #8 10-02-2012, 02:31 PM

S!

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

ATAG_Dutch · #9 10-02-2012, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

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.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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!