Harrington Airfield (Carpetbaggers) 801st /492nd bomb group.Flight down main runway...
8 mins start of main runway.Pilots view of coming in to land..
Harrington airfield (carpetbaggers) 801st 492nd bomb group..
Flight down main runway.
Harrington Airfield - Nuclear Missile deployment
During the cold war In 1959 Harrington airfield was selected to house a missile with immense destructive power known as Thor.
A total of 3 missile launch pads were constructed in which 3 missiles
occupied the sheltered launch tracks in preparation to fire if the need arose. An unknown site only known by locals at the time was
indeed a vital part of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
We can only be thankful that these were never fired.
The Airfield was closed and all missiles removed in 1963.
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RAF Harrington a WWII and rocket base drone 2018 part 1
RAF Harrington a WWII and cold war rocket base drone 2018
Kimbolton airfield 379th bomb group England,flight down main runway
At 3mins 30 secs its clear to see imprints of runways two and three...Opening shot is the figure of eight hardstand which is now a gokart track...
ww2 airfield runway lights control room (inside)
ww2 airfield runway lights control room (inside)
Quadcopter flight at Harrington airfield
F450 frame, F9 cam in 720p at Harrington airfield
Secret War (1939-45) - May 2014
Now for something completely different!
During 2014 I took the opportunity of joining a group which for two days explored Britain’s ‘Secret War’ visiting the Military Intelligence Museum, Bletchley Park, RAF Tempsford and USAF Harrington (the latter two were involved in dropping agents and supplies in enemy occupied Europe). Here then is footage shot at Bletchley Park on a most miserable wet day! However, the adverse weather did not dampen the fascinating story of the cryptanalysts working at there.
Discover the Bombe, The Tunny, Heath Robinson and Colossus (the World’s first semi programmable electronic computer).
Podington airfield and control tower.
Polebrook airfield..351st bomb group...
10.20 mins .Main entrance to airfield..2 mins start of main runway..pilots view of coming in to land..
Harrington airfield Thor missile launch pad
306th Bomb Group Reunion at Thurleigh in 1982 (Part 2)
The 306th Bomb Group Returned to Thurleigh in 1982 to unveil their memorial there.
Deenethorpe airfield 401st bomb group, rememberance ceremony. Last day on airfield...
MISSILE PROTEST
Supporters of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, marched to the RAF missile base at Harrington airfield, Northants. The demonstration lasted about two hours, and, after warnings about obstruction, many arrests were made. Eighty altogether, seventy-three people later refused bail and were remanded in custody.
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The Way It Was: Part 2
Life at Deenethorpe, a B-17 base in England during WWII. 8th Air Force, 401st Bomb Group - Heavy.
Secret War
Places where history has been made. This records a visit to some fascinating collections and sites from which the Secret War was waged. These included the Museum of Military Intelligence at Chicksands, Bletchley Park the WW2 Code Breaking Centre, RAF Tempsford the Secret airfield which supported Special Operations Executive operations during the Second World War. We visited the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage aircraft to view the Westland Lysander aircraft which flew behind enemy lines on nights when the moon was full to ferry agents and equipment.The tour also included Harrington Airfield where the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Wartime Intelligence Service operated its Carpetbagger missions. We also passed the massive hangers at Cardington where two ill fated airships were built one of which, the R101, crashed in 1930 on its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 of the 54 people on board. The trip was run by Travel Editions
Diesel City To kimbolton Airfield Time Lapse
November 9th 2014
Road cycling video of C&DCycles Sunday ride. This was a special remembrance ride visiting former WWII airfields at Chelveston, Kimbolton, Polebrook and Grafton Regis
Haunted RAF Kimbolton experimental technique on Dispersal
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Make the most of this one as i'm walking away for a while, simply had enough of EVPs and the headaches from processing/analysing
The airfield was originally built in 1941 for RAF Fighter Command, then as the RAF decided they didn't need it the airfield was expanded for use by American bombers during 1942.
Kimbolton was assigned to the United States Army Air ForcesEighth Air Force and given the designation USAAF Station 117.
The 91st Bombardment Group arrived from Walla Walla AAF in September 1942 it's squadrons were the 322nd, 323rd, 324th & 401st all equipped with B-17s...........On 14 October the 91st BG transferred to Bassingbourn because the runways at Kimbolton were not sturdy enough for the B-17s.
The 17th BG with B26 Marauders began arriving from Barksdale AAF within days, the squadrons were the 37th, 95th, and 432nd. The 17th BG used Kimbolton as a transitory airfield on its way to the North African campaign and in November they departed for Telergma in Algeria and Kimbolton underwent an upgrade to it's runways and hardstandings.
May 1943 The 379th BG arrived from Sioux City equipped with the B-17 Flying Fortress. Its operational Squadrons were the 524th, 525th, 526th & 527th.
The 379th flew 330 missions, lost 149 B-17s and claimed 315 enemy aircraft.
In June 1945 the 379th was transferred to Casablanca and Kimbolton was returned to the RAF. In 1946 Kimbolton closed but retained on standby status until 1960.
It is a very haunted airfield - famous for a B17 crew seen in a burned out aircraft playing cards
It's taken me about 8 years to get around to this - for a long time I could get nothing out of the wind and was very disappointed with this... I have devised a technique for extracting voices from the wind only recently - this I applied to the Kimbolton recording..
Despite the wind I definitely wasn't alone on that dispersal....In truth I need to go back and get a better recording
Music Credit
Glenn Miller - In the Mood
Robert Campbell, Pilot: Eighth Air Force Historical Society of Mn
Robert (Bob) Campbell, USAAF, 8th Air Force, B-17 Pilot, Night missions dropping leaflets using the Monroe Bomb, 406th Bomb Squadron, American Military Intelligence Department, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) England described his time in service during WW II at a meeting in 2012 of the Eighth Air Force Historical Society of Minnesota, Bloomington.