Below is Mike`s plan of RAF Kasfareet as remembered by him 52 years later
My first contact from the group who are dead keen to source any parts of the wartime Stirling bomber which may eventually lead to the first Stirling rebuild for posterity.
Could the above 1946 plan reveal the " North dump " as mentioned earlier on this page ? The two sites marked as " Excavation " are situated North of the airfield where all the surplus warplanes were parked.
The following letter then received from the Stirling Project Group, I forwarded on to Mike because he was the first to mention scrapping of aircraft as can be seen noted on his map above, but in his case, Spitfires.
Instrument Team 1951 Mike - centre Pat Hanrahan ? - right
Scrap Spitfires Kasfareet 1951.....after we finished with them
Spitfires, I cannot date these pictures accurately but guess we probably did the job in Novenber 1951 as we were all in working blue with full length denim overalls. In October I think we would have been in shorts, tho` I can`t remember the changeover date from KD to working blue.
The Spitfires were all marked up as 208 Sqn and I assume that they had all flown in sometime before I arrived in the previous autumn.
Spitfires, I cannot date these pictures accurately but guess we probably did the job in Novenber 1951 as we were all in working blue with full length denim overalls. In October I think we would have been in shorts, tho` I can`t remember the changeover date from KD to working blue.
The Spitfires were all marked up as 208 Sqn and I assume that they had all flown in sometime before I arrived in the previous autumn.
Meteor Jet NF `s lined up for a picture with ASS staff in front.
Mike says " these pics not as good as I would wish but both film and chemicals were obtained from time expired stock in the BDSM Compound, on top of that they are nearly 60 yeras old anyway !! ( You should be so lucky Mike. I never knew about BDSM out there so I bought surplus Air Ministry photographic paper by post from the UK , address picked up from Amateur Photographer....Alwyn)