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07 Feb 2020 10:47 #1
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I promise I have tried the search function but I did not get an answer.
I have been looking into the army's home front defence plans for RAF airfields in April/May 1941.
There appear to be three categories listed in Western Command army records for what I presume is their defence -.A, B and C. Hawarden is ranked B and its satellite Wrexham C. This pattern follows for Ternhill, Shawbury, High Ercall and Cosford and their satellites.
None is marked A. Given their high importance with large stocks of aircraft, at several of them what do these categories actually mean? Does anyone have a definition, or point me to where I could find one?
I have tried to upload a photograph of the original for information but with no success, due to my incompetence.
I have been looking into the army's home front defence plans for RAF airfields in April/May 1941.
There appear to be three categories listed in Western Command army records for what I presume is their defence -.A, B and C. Hawarden is ranked B and its satellite Wrexham C. This pattern follows for Ternhill, Shawbury, High Ercall and Cosford and their satellites.
None is marked A. Given their high importance with large stocks of aircraft, at several of them what do these categories actually mean? Does anyone have a definition, or point me to where I could find one?
I have tried to upload a photograph of the original for information but with no success, due to my incompetence.
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07 Feb 2020 12:08 #2
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You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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I think Cat A, are the fighter airfields around London
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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07 Feb 2020 12:25 #3
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Thank You Paul. Does anyone else have a reference to when and how these categories developed.
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07 Feb 2020 12:54 #4
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I would have thought that east coast airfields such as Leuchars would have been an A cat as well.
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