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A hedge was removed, two clumps of horse-chestnut trees and a clump of lime trees were felled and [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Nanny_Coopers_pond Nanny Coopers pond] was filled in. | A hedge was removed, two clumps of horse-chestnut trees and a clump of lime trees were felled and [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Nanny_Coopers_pond Nanny Coopers pond] was filled in. | ||
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A blister hanger was erected behind the school to house the American Stinson plane of Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris. Local lads, including [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Gordon_May Gordon May] used to help push the plane into the hanger | A blister hanger was erected behind the school to house the American Stinson plane of Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris. Local lads, including [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Gordon_May Gordon May] used to help push the plane into the hanger | ||
Revision as of 13:57, 24 August 2023
WW2 AIRFIELD, STOCKEN FARM reported by Doug Tilbury
On Saturday June 6th 1944 at 6 pm, bulldozers arrived to make an airfield for Air Chief Marshall ‘Bomber’ Harris, of Bomber Command, Walters Ash. 45 acres of the flat grazing land of the farm were to be taken. The fields of the farm were bulldozed to make the airstrip. The first plane took off three mornings later.
A hedge was removed, two clumps of horse-chestnut trees and a clump of lime trees were felled and Nanny Coopers pond was filled in.
A blister hanger was erected behind the school to house the American Stinson plane of Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris. Local lads, including Gordon May used to help push the plane into the hanger
'Bomber' Harris ordered Andrew Oliver To inspect every Spitfire which came down in England. He used Harris's private plane, to fly to the crash sites to see if the accident was due to a fault in the wood/ glue manufacture.
After the war the hanger was used by the farm, until the land on which it stood was taken to enlarge Lacey Green School grounds.
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