Local history- 58 OTU Grangemouth

[delta7]

During the war , a local airfield was used as a training unit. It was primerily for converting pilots onto spitfires . Today I took some photographs -

here is the cairn that marks the site of the former airfield- the large building in the background was one of the hangers

the inscription

there is a local museum where the ATC have built a replica of the airfield as it would have been

there are also the remains of a crashed spitfire

unfortunatly there were many casualties - here is the memorial at the local cemetry and some of the gravestones - there were boys from all over Poland, Chechoslovakia, Australia, Canada etc

for more info , including a role of honour see these links

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wwshack/Misc ... Honour.htm

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wwshack/Misc/Grangemouth.htm

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfie ... mouth.html

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/G/Grangemouth.htm

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/old ... age18.html

A bit of a sobering day.

[DoubleTap]

Dave,

[Painless]

~S~ Dave, thanks for those M8

Very interesting and also sad.

See the ages of the guys who died

[Rattler]

Thanks for the pics, Dave.

OTU's were cool because they had so many different types of a/c on them.