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Click on the Link to access the Map of the RAF Rendal Airbase from 1945 - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies
Map1945.pdf
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Rednal Operational Day Book April 1942
Rednal Operational Day Book April 1942.pdf
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Rednal Operational Day Book July 1942
Rednal Operational Day Book July 1942.pdf
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Rednal Operational Day Book October 1942
Rednal Operational Day Book October 1942.pdf
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Rednal Operational Day Book January 1943
Rednal Operartional Day Book January 1943.pdf
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Haughton Farm Rednal Aerodrome
Haughton Farm Rednal Aerodrome.pdf
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Rednal Operational Day Book April 1943
Rednal Operational Day Book April 1943.pdf
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Rednal Operations Day Book July 1943
Rednal Operations Day Book July 1943.pdf
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Rednal Operations Day Book October 1943
Rednal Operations Day Book October 1943.pdf
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Pete Brown - Chief flying officer Rednal- - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Control Tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Margaret Haye (MaggieStraw) and Vera Isherwood - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Inside the tower (Vera Isherwood) - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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5 - Pierre Clausterman - French Pilot - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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70/S control tower - October 1944 - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Don Finkley - Battle of Britain pilot - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Flight Hut - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Spit on Airfield - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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View on cockpit - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Spitfire - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Spitfire at Rednal - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Spitfire with Toby NeilBoch - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Drogue Target pulled by Lycauder |
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Crash crew outside tower with Vera |
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Met Crew on top of tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Vera and others on top of the tower - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Maggie and Vera - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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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
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Fred Saffri - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Hospital Staff |
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Hospital Nurses - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Driver (Transport) - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |
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Stanley Lister - Pilot crashed into the Barn on airfield |
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Fire Building next to Control Tower with Fire Engine |
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Spitfire outside control tower |
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Large hanger (where the woodyard is now) |
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Airmen on their Cycles - Photo Courtesy Michael Davies |