Donnington airfield (sic)

[P Bellamy]

And Leconfield's tower appears to have had a couple of unusual features also seen in the photo, the "bars" over the lower windows and the straight external staircase.

[bvs]

I would go along with leconfield,these are some screen grabs from 'Conflict of Wings' which was filmed at Leconfield etc in the 50's (1954 ?) ,the RAF obviously had bought galloons of whitewash by then,sorry the screengrabs are wrong ratio but I guess it is because it was recorded off the telly years ago LOL





I also include a gratuitous pic of a Swift



rgds baz

[P Bellamy]

A quick resample to 800x600 for you Baz:









All the best,
PB

[bvs]

Thanks PB...that looks much better...could you PM me and tell me how you did it please ?
I am not that good on computing skills LOL

rgds baz

[Dave Smith]

MGC, Paul B and bvs - what a team! Superb detective work.

[bvs]

The photo was posted by Peter Owen.
The photostream was about his family inc Flt Lt Norman Owen who was an operational Lanc pilot with 57 sqn at East Kirkby.
I think Norman Owen may be the LH pilot in the above photo,he has something above his RH tunic pocket,which may match the crew photo in the flickr stream.
So did Norman end up in Leconfield Tower after being shot down and evading in 1944 ?

Link to flickr photostream...

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...mkal9tR56Wb_Ew

[Dave Smith]

Thanks for clarifying the origins of that photo, bvs. I believe that RAF policy for evaders was to take them off operational flying in case they were shot down again. This was to avoid possibly compromising their civilian helpers and the Escape Line in general.

[bvs]

Generally speaking that was the policy,I believe he had done 36 ops anyway so well due for a 'rest' !
As usual there were exceptions to any rule or policy of course

[REF]

Is it worth moving this to the Leconfield thread now?