File:RAF Exeter aerial photo 1941.jpg

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Description Oblique aerial view of Exeter airfield, Devon, from the north-east. Damage caused by the severe night air raids mounted against the airfield in April and May 1941 is still apparent among the buildings of the technical site on the left, including the large pre-war civilian hangar used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In the foreground repairs to the grass surfaces have been carried out by filling in bomb craters with rubble from bombed houses in Exeter. Aircraft, many of which belong to the Gunnery Research Unit, are dispersed around the airfield and in the adjoining fields. Boulton Paul Defiants of No. 307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron RAF can be seen parked in the double aircraft pens constructed around the dispersal loop track (lower right), which cuts across fields and hedge boundaries of land requisitioned from nearby Treasbeare Farm.
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This photograph HU 91898 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Royal Air Force official photographer, No. 1 Camouflage Unit
Camera location50° 44′ 04″ N, 3° 24′ 50″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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