Remember
This bomber is flying over Ely Cathedral in a memorial window in that building commemorating the contribution of Bomber Command during World War II and remembering the airmen who were lost. Lincolnshire and East Anglia were the home to many squadrons of bombers during the war, and even when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s the landscape was punctuated by control towers and fenced-off airfields. Hangars and a windsock can be seen below the cathedral in the window, representing the bases to which the airmen hoped to return.
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A very poignant posting. Thank you.
Still plenty of active airfields, and more former ones, when I was growing up a bit further west in the 1970s and 1980s. Alconbury, Bassingborne, Bourn, Brampton, Duxford, Gransden, Thurleigh, Wittering, Wyton, etc. And further east the huge bases at Lakenheath and Mildenhall. Some still active in various forms today.
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