Thread: Where was 180 Sqn RAF stationed on 14 December 1944? See pics
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Old 26th February 2012, 23:08
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Re: Where was 180 Sqn RAF stationed on 14 December 1944? See pics
Gentlemen,

Thanks, very helpful!

@Peter: If correct, this will give a very large "safety margin" regarding time to link No 180 Sqn RAF camouflaged hangar photos to Melsbroek. Things would be much more difficult if 180 Sqn had changed airfields every week or month...


@Chris: Some questions:
  1. Could Reg Speller be the Fox photographer? His name is mentioned as such in some of the captions and because of the similarity in the photos I more or less assumed that they could all be taken by him.
  2. If you are familiar with the Charles E Brown collection, could you please confirm whether the KG66 Ju 188 picture is part of the same series or not?
  3. Do you perhaps have a link to the 124 Wing Typhoon pictures in the IWM collection?
Yes, the captions of the Hulton Getty images are a shambles.. How can you state that a B-25 is parked in a former Luftwaffe hangar in France in January 1944 and not thinking that this would have been very odd before D-Day?!

Maybe useful to others: When searching for the KG66 Ju 188 photo in the IWM Image Collection, I stumbled upon a series of photos taken by a "Taylor, H. J. S." of No 16 Sqn RAF, see: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/li...page=10&page=1

Of which the aerial overview of Melsbroek in October 1944 is maybe one of the nicest:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205045119

This aerial overview consists of a composition of 4 aerial pictures of the airfield infrastructure plus bombcraters and Allied aircraft. Especially handy is the fact that highlights are marked with arrows and textboxes with such interesting titles as "Pranged Mosquito", "Pranged Stirling", "Force-landed Forts and Liberators", "Dummy Chateau", "Hangars camouflaged to look like a village" and a whole lot of No 16 Sqn buildings. (FYI, I have ordered this picture..)

NB: The "Ju 188 and hangar" mentioned in this picture and the subject of the following separate IWM pictures (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205045137 and http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205045138 )

is unfortunately not "my" KG66 Ju 188 but the wellknown and well published 3E+HK of KG6. See also the thread on LEMB: http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/fo...showtopic=1945


Best regards,

Marcel
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