18th June 1999 Saint-André-de-l'Eure, Normandie, Airfield site visit.
On the 24th June 1944 Unteroffizier. Herbert Blochberger, (a veteran of over 170 missions) Took-off from St.Andre airfield. The mission for the day was reconnaissance of the Seine Bay area, especially noting the positions of allied troop movements and equipment such as tanks etc. Sadly Herbert would not return from this mission and he would remain missing until his aircraft was recovered in November 1996
28 August 2007 Great Saling Airfield (Andrews Field) Airfield Archaeology & Site Investigation
Airfield visited today to survey the site for possible locations where aircraft parts and other World War 2 material may have been discarded, on various dump sites that are always associated with airfields that often contain both military and domestic items.
29th September 2007 Great Saling Airfield (Andrews Field) Airfield Archaeology & Site Investigation
Following our survey of the airfield on the 25th August this year, today we began to search the predetermined areas we had located in areas that we were allowed access to.
29th September 2007 Great Saling Airfield (Andrews Field). The visit by invitation from the society for Kelvin Youngs a Relative of Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak who was Tragically Killed at the airfield, to visit locations where this incident took place.
To coincide with our investigation of Great Saling Airfield (Andrews Field) we also invited Kelvin Youngs a Relative of the pilot Aleksander Pietrzak , who’s tragic loss we were able to investigate in his memory on the 15th September this year.
29th September 2007 Great Saling Airfield (Andrews Field) Relative of Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak Kelvin Youngs taken to the tragic site at Andrews Field where Aleksander was killed.
Heading Photo: Kelvin Youngs stands at the tragic spot where his half-brothers father was thrown from his aircraft and killed. The small haystack in the back ground stands approximately where the airfields control tower stood, which was only just missed by the low flying inverted Mustang FK876. (Photo: David King)
5th October 2013 Finmere Airfield Investigation
Following a number of reports of aircraft remains being buried at Finmere Airfield, the society began investigating the area described Back on the 5th October 2013. The investigation was led by Alex King who first made contacted with the land owner Mrs. Collins in 2012. Permission was granted and a number of visits were made to survey the site in 2012. It soon became apparent from these visits that large quantities ruble from tracks and demolished buildings from the bomb dump area, had been thrown into this large deep war time storage hole, which was ramped at one end from ground level, down to over 20 feet deep in the centre. If any aircraft parts had been discarded after the war there, they would be below many feet of rubble, and the only chance of finding them, would have to be by deep machine excavation. An extensive search of the area revealed many remnants of former airfield constructions, but sadly no aircraft remains were discovered.
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