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12th February 2017 marked the 75th anniversary of the Channel Dash in 1942. Three of Germany's largest battleships were to ...
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In the channel a Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) had been disabled near the French coast between Dover and Cap Griz-Nez ...
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F/Lt Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Sélys-Longchamps Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Sélys-Longchamps was born 31 May, 1912 in Brussels ...
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On 7th November 1945, Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson, CBE, AFC, Royal Air Force, Commandant of the Empire Test Pilots’ ...
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No.198 Sqn Typhoon JR523 piloted by F/O Henry “Harry” Hector MacKenzie (RCAF) took off from Manston at 1143hrs as "Blue ...
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Luftwaffe Recon photo some time after raids of 24/08/1940 Six heavy attacks, the first at 0600hrs (TBC) when approximately 80 ...
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Manston, 12th August 1940 by Gerald Coulson. A depiction of No. 65 squadron taking off as the attack on Manston ...
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Described by many as "The Hardest Day", Manston escaped most of what the Luftwaffe would today throw at the RAF ...
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A Handley Page O/100, #1463 flown by Flt Lt Henry Connell Vereker accompanied by HP 1462 of Sub Lt Sands ...
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By Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (Messerschmitt Bf109E-4/B ‘4101 / Black 12’ (DG200)) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia ...
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On the night of the 26/27th November 1954, the South Goodwin Lightship's anchor chains failed during a hurricane force 12 ...
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On this day, 28th August 1940 The Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects bomb damage caused by Luftwaffe night raids in ...
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Published with permission from 'Bloody Paralyser - The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War' by Rob Langham (Fonthill ...
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Fifty six emergency landings on the night of 28th August 1942 left devastation that would lead to the approval for ...
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Troops preparing to board British Horsa type gliders at Manston Air Base, England. Believed to be before or during Operation ...
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Pilots of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron run to their waiting Hurricane aircraft at RAF Northolt, 9 January 1941 ...
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Flt Lt Arthur Frank Brandon with Sopwith Camel B3923 'Springbok'. Photo from Joe Bamford. During the First World War, the ...
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Bofors gun crew ready for action, November 1939. Location unknown. © IWM (H 145) At 1140hrs, a large formation of ...
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No.54 Sqn's P/O Gray attacks a Bf 109 piloted by Lt Josef Schauff of 8/JG 26 over Margate. The German's ...
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RAF Manston yet again played its part in history when the jet engine age was born. In July 1944, the ...
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Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/U2 (W.Nr. 412951) 'White 16' of 3./JG 301, one of two aircraft which landed in error at Manston ...
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No.609 Sqn ORB: This morning’s Roadstead consists of aircraft of all 3 Sqdns: 609, 3 and 184. Taking off at ...
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No.48 Sqn's Avro Anson K6158 flown by Sgt Plt G.J. Maurice (pilot, aged 23), Flt Lt G.E. Strangman (navigator), Aircraftman ...
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No.550 Sqn Lancaster I NF998 BQ-D crewed by Sgt. M.T. Ditson RCAF (mid gunner), F/O R.D. Harris RCAF (pilot), Sgt ...
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On this day, 6th June 1944, known as D-Day, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of ...
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Secret files are released In October 2008, a number of previously secret UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) files concerning UFO ...
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In May 1943, a top secret weapon was used against dams in the German Ruhr valley in an attempt to ...
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Bristol Blenheim Mark I, L1295 in flight above the clouds. This aircraft commenced service in August 1938 with No. 107 ...
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RAF Search and Rescue teams in helicopters from No.22 Sqn at Manston were part of the rescue operation for the ...
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Not directly related to Manston at the time, but the birth of another aircraft closely linked to Manston's later history ...
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This book is a facsimile copy of the pages of a pilot's flying logbook recording the operational tours of Wing ...
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DETAILS First Edition Hardback: 336 pages.Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd (1 Jan. 1971).Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0356036413 ISBN-13: 978-0356036410 Product Dimensions: ...
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Then we were up in the air; I tried to move around but was restrained. I really was special - ...
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This is a unique book. There have been many books about aerial combat in World War Two, quite a few ...
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As part of the RAF Manston Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum’s first ever Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) project, they aimed ...
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Bombsights over England records in depth the activities of Erpobungsgruppe 210 over southern England during the bitter fighting of summer ...
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This is the Second World War story of a champion cyclist turned airman who lived to tell the tale against ...
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Manston, 12th August 1940 by Gerald Coulson A German raid catches the airfield at Manston by surprise, and Spitfires are ...
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Boulton Paul Defiants of 264 Squadron engage Heinkel 111s of III/KG51 over Dunkirk on the second day of Operation Dynamo, ...
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During the lifetime of this project, we have been attempting to put together a more complete timeline of Squadrons and ...
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The very first British jet engine-powered fighter to see operational service was the Gloster Meteor. Following the wartime Meteor Mk.Is ...
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DESCRIPTION A follow-up to Finding the Few, this companion volume deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe ...
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RNAS Westgate played a leading role in the defence of the Thames Estuary when the British Expeditionary Force (that 'Contemptible ...
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We hope to continue to expand posts on both Facebook and the website in due course after referring to the ...
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We are delighted to be able to share with you another book that has a connection to Manston. The author ...
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This classic piece by Robert Taylor contains all that a true Typhoon enthusiast could ask for! The scenario was inspired ...
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On International Women's Day, it seems appropriate to remember the role played often behind the scenes by the WAAF, WRNS, ...
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Book Launch:  The third of the "Detailed History" books about RAF Manston was officially launched on 2nd March 2017 at the Holiday ...
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This compelling account of the German air raid on Folkestone and the appalling aftermath is the first comprehensive history of ...
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Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be ...
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From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Battle of Britain is a magisterial and stunningly illustrated account ...
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The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression ...
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Tales From The Control Tower is based on the author’s personal experiences of the Royal Air Force. It starts in ...
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References to Manston to be confirmed. For many, the Westland Whirlwind conjures the image of yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not ...
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The Channel Dash was one of three operations during the Second World War for which the Swordfish was to become ...
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In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and ...
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Peter W J Neale has written a book (new for 2017) that details the history behind The Spitfire and Hurricane ...
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Trying to piece together a more comprehensive day by day timeline for Manston was the initial goal that the current ...
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Heavy snow during the winter of 1941 often kept pilots and their aircraft grounded, despite the best efforts of the ...
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Undetected, the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, together with the cruiser Prinz Eugen and supporting vessels, had escaped from the French ...
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With soft evening sunlight radiant behind them, Hauptmann Wolfgang Ewald, Gruppenkommandeur of 1./JG52, leads a schwarm of Bf109s back to ...
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Led by Squadron Commander Roland “Bee” Beamont, Typhoons of 609 Squadron are dramatically illustrated as they scramble from their base ...
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The Straits of Dover, 12th February 1942. Sub Lieutenant Edgar Lee helps his badly wounded pilot, Sub Lieutenant Brian Rose from ...
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The winter of ’41 is remembered well by Geoffrey Wellum, pilot of Spitfire ‘G’ for George. Bitter cold and heavy ...
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After following the Hawker Typhoon RB396 Restoration page for a little while, we were very interested to find the link ...
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It was a very interesting afternoon yesterday (29th Oct 2016) at the Hawker Typhoon RB396 Restoration project launch, held at ...
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Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers ...
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DETAILS Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Meresborough Books; First Edition, First Printing edition (May 1981) Language: English ISBN-10: 0905270355 ISBN-13: 978-0905270357 ...
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Written by Doug Cockle (of the RAF Manston History Museum) - Details and availability TBC. DETAILS Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: ...
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With 2015 being the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain – arguably the Hawker Hurricane’s ‘finest hour’ – it ...
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The forgotten airfield at Throwley, Faversham, Kent, which existed between 1917 and 1919, was created to aid Britain's coastal defence ...
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DETAILS Hardcover: 150 pages Publisher: Privately Published (2010) ASIN: B00V5510LM Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm ...
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Lympne Airfield: At War and Peace is the story of ‘Kent’s Garden Airfield’, so called because of its location on ...
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As a small club airfield during the 1930s, West Malling was very popular with flyers. Taken over by the RAF ...
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Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome ...
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A full account of the part played by Kent's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield ...
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The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain. It included the airfields at ...
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This series of books provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of the British Isles. The series is ...
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Kent remained at the centre of the conflict throughout the war, and the courageous pilots of Fighter Command received countless ...
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Using over 300 photographs, Roy Humphreys tells the story of civil and military aviation in Kent. From the excitement and ...
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As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular ...
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References TBC DETAILS Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Midland Publishing (23 Sept. 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1857803280 ISBN-13: 978-1857803280 Product Dimensions: ...
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With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command ...
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‘Shrieking from the clouds, the Stukas achieved the measure of surprise they needed. The accuracy of the raid was good ...
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Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF’s counter to a new generation of armoured German ...
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Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive ...
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DESCRIPTION July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn’t caved in to Hitler’s Third Reich. Hitler’s stated ...
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Details the history of RAF Manston from 1916 to 1986. DETAILS Paperback: 104 pages Publisher: RAF Manston; 3rd Revised edition ...
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DETAILS Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd (25 Nov. 1993) Language: English ISBN-10: 0750901357 ISBN-13: 978-0750901352 Product Dimensions: 21.6 ...
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Description to be added. DETAILS Author(s): Royal Air Force Manston History Club Publisher: The History Press Ltd Date of Publication: ...
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The airfield at Manston has played an important part in the lives not just of those who served here but ...
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Details to be added. DETAILS Author(s): Malcolm Finnis Publisher: Michaels Bookshop Date of Publication: 01/05/2007 Language(s): English Format: Paperback ISBN-10: ...
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Throughout the 1930s, RAF Manston became established as one of the most important airfields in the country. No. 48 Squadron ...
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A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1916-1930: The Men Who Made Manston covers the development of aviation in Thanet up ...
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Taken over by the United States Air Force in 1950 as a direct result of the developing chill of the ...
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PRODUCT DETAILS Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Countryside Books (29 Sept. 1990) Language: English ISBN-10: 1853060992 ISBN-13: 978-1853060991 Product Dimensions: 26.2 ...
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PRODUCT DETAILS Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Meresborough Books; First Edition edition (May 1981) Language: English ISBN-10: 0905270363 ISBN-13: 978-0905270364 ...
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DESCRIPTION The Last Enemy is the story of Richard Hillary, one of Sebastian Faulks' three 'fatal englishmen'. In this extraordinary ...
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This is the story of Detling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - ...
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