We launched our web pages September 2020, acknowledging the thanks to many who have contributed to this story. Text as follows: December 31st 2020 will be the 80th Anniversary of the 1940 ditching of N2980, R for Robert, Wellington into Loch Ness while on a training exercise. The wreckage, forgotten for 45 years, was foundContinue reading “Launch of Web pages”
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Brooklands October eNewsletter
Brooklands eNewsletter September 2020
The nightingale and the Wellington Bomber
Located deep in a Surrey wood at twilight, a dedicated BBC radio sound recordist listened intensely through his headphones. He suddenly realized that an ominous additional sound was superimposing the recording. The year was 1942 and the interloping audio was a squadron of Bomber Command over-flying the Surrey countryside and heading for the English Channel.Continue reading “The nightingale and the Wellington Bomber”