History of Manston Airfield - From 1916 to the present day
Messerschmitt Bf109E ‘4101 / Black 12’ of 21 year old Leutnant Wolfgang Teumer from 2/JG51 based at Wissant near Calais, was attacked by the Spitfire of 66 Squadron’s Flt Lt...
On 7th November 1945, Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson, CBE, AFC, Royal Air Force, Commandant of the Empire Test Pilots’ School, Cranfield, set the first world speed record with a...
Published with permission from ‘Bloody Paralyser – The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War’ by Rob Langham (Fonthill Media, 2016). Following the first flight of the Handley Page...
A slowing advance and a plan By September 1944, Paris and Brussels had been liberated through weeks of heavy and costly fighting through the Normandy fields and hedgerows, after the triumph of...
New Luftwaffe tactics On 15 September – now known as “Battle of Britain Day” – the Luftwaffe launched two huge bombing raids on London. Believing that the RAF was close...
On this day, 28th August 1940 Manston’s importance was recognised when the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, paid it a personal visit. He saw an airfield barely serviceable, still with craters...
Battle of Britain Day, 15th September 1940
15 Sep, 2021
On this day, 28th August 1942, 56 emergency landings
28 Aug, 2021
Rise and Defend – The USAF At Manston 1950-1958
31 Aug, 2006
V-1 Flying Bomb Aces by Mark Postlethwaite
4 Aug, 2017
Manston’s role on D-Day, 6th June 1944
6 Jun, 2021
On this day, 28th August 1942, 56 emergency landings
28 Aug, 2021
