One of these stations is the WW2 bomber station RAF Warboys just outside Huntington. Originally built in 1940 as a satellite station for RAF Wyton, it started life as a conventional bomber station.
The drone of aircraft engines "like the far away thunder of a giant waterfall" made them scuttle indoors as wave after wave of bombers flew ... of incendiaries (small candle-like bombs) fall ...
In the heart of a small Cambridgeshire village ... aviation museum Read more: The former WW2 RAF base with crumbling buildings once used to launch bombers However, in the late 1950s, the US ...
The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...
It was a plan designed to fool Hitler's bombers - four pieces of land in north Staffordshire transformed to look like fake airfields, factories or burning towns. The aim? To trick the WW2 ...