delta7 Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted March 4, 2008 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 ~S~ Dave, thanks for those M8 Very interesting and also sad. See the ages of the guys who died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattler Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Thanks for the pics, Dave. OTU's were cool because they had so many different types of a/c on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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