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Rednal RAF Airbase


Operational 1942 to 1945

Click on the Link to access the Map of the RAF Rendal Airbase from 1945 - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Map1945.pdf

Rednal Operational Day Book April 1942

Rednal Operational Day Book April 1942.pdf

Rednal Operational Day Book July 1942

Rednal Operational Day Book July 1942.pdf

Rednal Operational Day Book October 1942

Rednal Operational Day Book October 1942.pdf

Rednal Operational Day Book January 1943

Rednal Operartional Day Book January 1943.pdf

Haughton Farm Rednal Aerodrome

Haughton Farm Rednal Aerodrome.pdf

Rednal Operational Day Book April 1943

Rednal Operational Day Book April 1943.pdf

Rednal Operations Day Book July 1943

Rednal Operations Day Book July 1943.pdf

Rednal Operations Day Book October 1943

Rednal Operations Day Book October 1943.pdf

Pete Brown - Chief flying officer Rednal- - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Control Tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Margaret Haye (MaggieStraw) and Vera Isherwood - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Inside the tower (Vera Isherwood) - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

5 - Pierre Clausterman - French Pilot - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

70/S control tower - October 1944 - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Don Finkley - Battle of Britain pilot - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Flight Hut - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Spit on Airfield - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

View on cockpit - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Spitfire - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Spitfire at Rednal - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Spitfire with Toby NeilBoch - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Drogue Target pulled by Lycauder

Crash crew outside tower with Vera

Met Crew on top of tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Vera and others on top of the tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Maggie and Vera - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Dakotas after D-Day June 1944 - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Direct flights from Beach head Normandy to Rednal Airfield.
2/8/43 1 Dakota each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights, 1 24 wounded.
3/8/44 5 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights, 5 wounded 120.
4/8/44 12 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights, 12 wounded 288.
5/8/44 9 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 9, wounded 216.
6/8/44 15 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 15, wounded 360.
7/8/44 1 Dakota each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights l . wounded 24.
8/8/44 4 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 4, wounded 96.
9/8/44 3 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 3, wounded 72.
10/8/44 7 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 7, wounded 168.
14/8/44 1 1 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 1 1, wounded 264.
18/8/44 10 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 10, wounded 240.
23"44 1 Dakota each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights l , wounded 24.
24/8/44 1 Dakota each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights l , wounded 24.
26/8/44 4 Dakotas each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights 4, wounded 96.
30/8/44 3 Dakotas each carrying24 wounded. Total flights 3, wounded 72.
31/8/44 1 Dakota each carrying 24 wounded. Total flights l , wounded 24.
Total flights during month 88 and Wounded flown into Rednal Airfield 1834

Fred Saffri - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Hospital Staff

Hospital Nurses - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Driver (Transport) - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies

Stanley Lister - Pilot crashed into the Barn on airfield

Fire Building next to Control Tower with Fire Engine

Spitfire outside control tower

Large hanger (where the woodyard is now)

Airmen on their Cycles - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies
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