The stupidity of youth, it's a wonder i'm still here!...
The stupidity of youth, it's a wonder i'm still here!...
Don't worry, I know the feeling. We didn't set off ammo, but boy did we enjoy life in other ways!!!!!
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Look like razorbacks to me.
They are indeed P47's. When the site was being cleared up there were several finds of .50 cal machine guns which had been chopped in half. When work began on a new pub they unearthed a few crates that had .50 cal guns still wrapped up in grease. I recall bits of aircraft sticking out of the ground near a pond close to the old engine testing facility. That was back in the 80's/90's. Some of the chopped guns are on display in the RAF Burtonwood Museum at the local theme park. All sorts of rumours did the rounds about big pits being dug alongside the main runway at the end of the war(now the M62 motorway) and stuff just being bulldozed in. They reckon stuff was even thrown in the ponds that surround the site. There was a B17 fuselage in a local scrapyard for many years as well.
Wasn't Burtonwood used by the USAAF as a maintenance base during the war for lots of different aircraft? I assume Dakota's and Thunderbolts would have been flown from there. I have driven past it many times on the M62. I've been told by my mother that my grandmother’s sister and her friends used to go up there quite often trying to see the glamorous yanks!
I think they could have done alot worse
Hi Harry
I spent 2 happy years in Cheshire and I often passed the hangers and that iconic pub!!
Shame it has all gone
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Every type of US aircraft used in the European theatre would have been at Burtonwood, from Piper cubs to B 17s and B 24s and after the war there were B29s being maintained.
Steve Corbett: Have you heard the legend that there are about 50 Harley Davidson WLAs buried on the camp somewhere?..
Must have been cool growing up around there seeing all the different aircraft. I think the developers have done ok; perhaps they should have had a picture of both a Dakota and a Thunderbolt.
A Dakota doesn't really do a lot for me, not sure why they have one in the BBMF to be honest.
Annoyed me quite a lot in 2009 when it was the 70th anniversary of the Broughton Factory where i grew up, and have worked in the past, they had a flypast of the BBMF with a Dakota, the Lancaster that actually left the Broughton production line in April 1945 was not even there. Think it was a political decision by Airbus really; they did not want to upset the shareholders!!
Well, I admit I got those P-47s wrong. Should have spent more time building Airfix models than messing around the Bavarian countryside as a kid!
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