I am interested in eventually starting a website dedicated to the above OTU's and airfields. I am looking for help from anyone who has knowledge of the day to day operation of these airfields in WW2 or afterwards. There is quite a bit of information about the flying operation out there but not too much about the ordinary day to day operation of the airfields. I am interested in any info at all, no matter how mundane, from who made the camp bicycles(Hercules?) to what pubs were used!.(The Goats Head and The Fradley Arms?) So much of the day to day life seems to have gone unrecorded and we are fast running out of time, if not already too late!
My mother, who was a nursing orderly at both Lichfield and CB, told me that she used to go with the medical officer to retrieve bodies after crashes as far as the Derbyshire Peak District and also transferred patients to US general hospital from CB too. There were German POWs at Lichfield too!
I am currently researching the US WW2 mail operation into RAF Lichfield, apparently a daily C47a flew mail into Lichfield everyday from Prestwick. I also am researching a short cut path from Lichfield city across what is now Eastern Avenue back to the living quarters. In regard to the living quarters I believe they were in two areas at Lichfield on the technical side and on the other side of the road by the guard house.
Others area of my current research include
The DREM lights (sometimes the concrete bases remain around the airfield)
The flarepath lighting
The sighting of the SANDRA lights
The unit responsible for airfield maintenance
Security in WW2 at Lichfield
The WW2 MT section
Anson training at Lichfield.
The reason for the building of a second satellite at CB
I am primarily interested in Lichfield and its satellites but I assume daily life was similar in all bomber OTU's, so if you have any info in the daily operation of such a unit I would be glad to hear of it, from the camp barber(who was my father at Lichfield in WW2) to aircrew training.
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