The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Gary - good to see you on AiX, I know you will have some great input on the threads and I look forward to seeing you posts. Nice work on the cockpit too, looks better everytime I see it.

Hi Richard

Thanks for that mate !.

Looking at the Wiltshire section...where I live ...there are quite a few airfields missing, like Highpost, Oatlands Field etc etc. Not sure if I won't get taken away and locked up if I try getting pics at the Highpost site due to the current occupiers but will see what I can do in the not too distant future.

Also planning a B24 airfield tour early in the new year with a buddy (We normally do one tour every other year...year before last it was '51 and '17 bases !) so will start a thread when we get started

Hello all, I have just registered having been told of thesite by Alan [username not known] at East Kirby airfield, Lincs. last night . My interest is because my second cousin, the flight engineer on 405 squadron aancastermkIII that flew from Gransden Lodge, but Derek was lost on the night of 28/29th July 1944 after a raid on Hamburg. Missing/Presumed Killed being the official verdict. He was flight engineer on LM-Q; JB707 that went dow in the RingKobing Fjord off the coast of Denmark but only the pilot was found and buried with full honours by the Germans. Derek flew from Gransden Lodge and I am very keen to find any photographs of there at that time, just in case Derek and/or his Lancaster are recorded.

I ought to confess that I am also a fanatic about the Typhoon and Tempest[ hence my username!] , partly because my uncle was a Tempest pilot in the RAF at Agra, India in 1946/47. My primary interest is trying to find records from Gransden, not least because although I am far too young to have known Derek, I m am in contact with his now-85years-old sister who is still visibly upset by the memory of the loss of her big brother when he was just eighteen and a half., even though it was seventy years ago She comments that their mother, hoped to her dying day in the 1970s that Derek had baled out, been captured but escaped to Switzerland and that he would one day return home. I imagine thousands of mothers felt that way?

Thank you for any replies, in advance.

Novice/newbie question here: I assume that there is a box somewhere to tick that requests notification of replies to any subscribed thread? If so, I'm missing it, ah, just spotted it!Obvious really isn't it?!

re you asking me? My uncle flew a mk2, but personally it is the mkV that I would most like to see and hear in the air again, or the Typhoon of course but I doubt that will ever happen.

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My father was a Dutch Commando from 2 Dutch Troop No. 10 Commandos At some point he was stationed in St Athans. I believe around 1942. I would like to find out more about when he was there and what he did.

Welcome to AiX dutchman.

The town of St Athan (note the spelling) is located in South Wales, here:

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

There was an RAF airfield locally but also a number of military (army) camps around the area. I have layout drawings of some of these.

The starting point is to find some record of 10 (Dutch) Commando in the area during 1942. Not my line so I shall leave it to other members to provide information or suggest leads.

He may have been there as part of an airfield defence unit, perhaps?