Google Earth thread!

Just looking at Wyton 1945. There seem to be 4 Canberras on north part of airfield, also Bicester airfield has vanished

Sibson is a good one to look at lots of buildings frommthe dispersed and tech sites nice view if Mildenhall as well.

treadstone;54192 wrote:

Just looking at Wyton 1945. There seem to be 4 Canberras on north part of airfield, also Bicester airfield has vanished

Same here, Meteors perhaps?

As PNK explained in Post #8, there is a mix of 'open' and 'censored' images joined together so many airfileds are just 'fields' although you can play at looking for peripheral buildings which the censor has missed.

I am a bit upset with this tread as I found it at about 11.00pm last night and then switched off my computer at 1.00am. Three hours non stop.

As for airfields that are not shown, I think this goes with Ordnance Survey not showing military sites on their maps. Its odd the ones they do and do not show are not relevant to the importance of the airfields for future use. Tarrant Rushton is not shown but Castle Combe is. New Zealand Farm shows up very well also Critchel Down bombing range. Ex D-day camps show up as white squares where the tents used to be and the military hospitals in the grounds of large estates. Blandford Camp shows up well and several of you on another post asked about the runway for AOP aircraft. It shows that the area was a parade square. Again Blandford Camp shows rows of Z trenches. Some maybe WW1?? but not sure. A very good set of WW1 trenches near Imber village on Salisbury Plain and I am sure could be located today if it was not for red flags flying and a complete exclusion Zone. The large WW2 US storage at Westbury, several of the Quonset or Romney hut are still extant. I noticed on the East Anglia airfields a lot of stores left on runways and peri track and Aircraft storage on parts of Hullavington. Somebody has already mentioned Middleton St George. Looking forward to seeing more. Also Linton-on-Ouse's butts, if you go back through the years it shows it before the the construction of the new control tower.

Richard wrote:

I am a bit upset with this tread as I found it at about 11.00pm last night and then switched off my computer at 1.00am. Three hours non stop.

Sorry...I take full responsibility....won't happen again.....promise......well maybe it might

Yes you should be I had a great evening and am suffering this morning, may need a sleep after lunch!!

Fantastic ! Comparing the '1945' images with the current images and the street view icon is superb. Not going to get much else done today...

Just found Elmdon, where my father trained on Tiger Moths during WW2, nicely imaged, however Baginton a few miles to the east, Halfpenny Green, Defford, Staverton, Stratford, Gaydon and half of Snitterfield (!) are just fields. Throckmorton is nicely shown, as are RAFs Innsworth and Hartlebury. RAF Quedgeley is missing. What could be Harbury airfield (between Leamington and Harbury) and its hangars and a compasss swinging platform (?) are visible, clearly a car scrapyard in more recent views.

The two Longbridges - the circular airfield at the Longbridge aircraft factory in South Birmingham is visible, I believe there may have been another Longbridge airfield south of Leamington Spa, close to and NNE of J15 on the M40 ? A suitable field is shown and what look a couple of blister hangars.

A field with what looks like two runways is visible at Wishaw, east of Sutton Coldfield. Was that an airfield of some sort ? And are those huts west of Cheltenham the original GCHQ ?

Interesting to see a wooden building originally at the radio station where I used to work was present in 1945. There were rumours that it had been used by a listening service during WW2, I believe it was probably an early police MF transmitting site. It was demolished in 1986, I kept the insulators off the mast base to use as door stops...!

Not GE, but an interesting BoB site with a cool then-and-now map feature:
news.uk.msn.com/in-depth/world-war-two/b...britain/default.aspx

Tommy