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Military site : airfield
Chalgrove was built as a USAAF transport or observation unit base in 1943-44. Several reconnaissance units operated from the airfield, including the Ninth Air Force's 10th Photographic Group and 423rd Night Fighter Squadron (later 155th Reconnaissance Squadron) and the Eighth Air Force's 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. It was handed back to the RAF at the end of the Second World War and has since been used by Martin Baker, manufacturers of ejection seats.
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A military airfield, opened in 1943. During World War Two the base was used by units of the 8th and 9th United States Army Air Force. These included the 10th and 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Groups, Troop Carrier Pathfinder Group and additionally Airborne Pathfinder Paratroops of the US Army. The airfield was equipped with three concrete and tarmac runways and two aircraft hangars (type T2), of which only one is extant (please see SU 69 NW 66. For details of other wartime buildings see SU 69 NW 67). Wartime construction methods typically involved the use of "temporary materials" for many building types. After the war the military left the airfield, and in 1946 the Air Ministry allocated the airfield to Martin Baker Limited. This company used the airfield to research and test aircraft ejection seats. Martin Baker Limited remains at the airfield to date (2004). In 1993 a war memorial was dedicated at the airfield. A German aircraft is reported to be buried on the airfield.
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Based for the majority of their service at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, the 7th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) took over three million intelligence photos during the course of 4,251 sorties over occupied Europe. The Group was awarded a Distinguished...
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Military | First Lieutenant | photographer
He was a photo reconnaissance pilot with the Army Air Corps, flew missions from France and Belgium, including the Battle of the Bulge, in the winter of 1944/1945. Born February 20, 1924 and raised in San Leandro California, Bob enlisted at the age of...
Military | Corporal | Machinist
Military | Major | Photo Reconnaissance Pilot | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Military | Master Sergeant | Line Chief | 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Photo Interpretation | 451st Air Service Group
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
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Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Reconnaissance Pilot | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Edward Panner flew F-6 Mustangs with the 12th Tactical Recon Squadron of the 10th Photo Recon Group. He was with them at Azelot, France in 1944, and at Furth, Germany in 1945. In Germany, he met Val Svoboda, a Latvian who was working as a house keeper...
Military | First Lieutenant | Photo Reconnaissance Pilot | 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
F-6 Mustang
P-51 Mustang
A-20 Havoc
Shot down by night fighter at Le Plessis-Grimoult on night photo recon mission to St-Lo and Vire, France on 11 June 1944. Pilot F/O Stanley J. Kulak, navigator 1Lt Harry H. Cohn and gunner Sgt Lloyd H. Legendre were KIA. MACR 5687.
F-6 Mustang
Aircraft scrapped in Germany, Apr 15, 1946.
F-6 Mustang
North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial 42-103382 of the 15th TRS, 10th PRG, XIX TAC. Aircraft shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown bo Oblt Alfred Neumayer of JG 4/1 at Bellheim, E of Landau and crashed 3 km NW of Dahnk SW of Pirmasens, Germany 29th...
Oxford
Airspeed Oxford N4826, assigned to 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 9AF USAAF.
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 34th Photographic Squadron, 10th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 9th Air Force. Personal aircraft of Lt Larry Schmidt.
F-5 Lightning
F-5 Lightning
F-5 Lightning
Date | Contributor | Update |
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03 September 2019 12:40:33 | Emily | Changes to english heritage description |
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Historic England, National Monument Record SU 69 NW 65 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:02:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994) Roger Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 2001) Michael Bowyer, Action Stations 6: Military Airfields of the Cotswolds and the Central Midlands (Cambridge, 1983) |