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RAF Methwold opened as a dispersal airfield for RAF Feltwell in the winter of 1938. Vickers Wellington bombers from Feltwell continued to use the site as a satellite base until the grass airfield was transferred to No. 2 Group in the exchange of bases with No. 3 Group, in the summer of 1942.
Aug 25, 2024 · On the day of the incident, the Lancaster Bomber took off from RAF Methwold, in Norfolk, at 18:55 BST to strike a V-1 Flying Bomb site in Vincly, France. Seven men were on board when the...
After qualifying as a Flight Engineer on the Lancaster B Mk 1, he and his crew were posted to No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron on 12th of August 1944 based at RAF Methwold. Derek married Nancy May Horler on 20th Sep 1944. The Sqn relocated to RAF Chedburgh on 5th Dec 1944.
Up until 1984, the only RAF connection was that Miller's plane had taken off from the RAF airfield at Twinwood Farms, Bedfordshire in weather conditions which could be described as marginal, or at least marginal for that type of aircraft.
RAF METHWOLD 1938 -1958. At the end of the 1930’s as the possibility of war with Nazi Germany grew ever stronger the Air Ministry began to look for new sites to expand the number of airfields in East Anglia.
RAF Methwold was officially closed down in June 1958, the land being returned to its former owners or their families. In the 1960’s much of the concrete runways were broken up and the area returned largely to agriculture.
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Nov 7, 2016 · On 3 May eleven Venturas of No 487 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, led by Wing Commander Leonard Trent, took off from their base at Methwold in Norfolk to attack the main power station in Amsterdam.
