User:Pec68

This is the User Page for pec68. My name is Philip Ernest Claughton - [hence pec] and as an apprentice in the early nineteen - fifties at RAF Halton, I was in the 68th.[hence 68] Entry of Airframe Fitters - No.2 Wing at the time. On the Queens coronation day, we had to parade before being given the rest of the day off, the majority of us watched the coronation on television - in Black & White. The parade was to re-affirm our allegiance to the Sovereign. I have been using Wikipedia pages and GoogleEarth to research the exact locations of RAF flying airfields during the Second World War, their usage by squadrons, Commands in control, and other units allied to that airfield [Station]. I have created a series of 'placemarks' grouped in areas, ie. Eastern England - Wales - Scotland - South-Eastern England etc. and once a placemark is activated you can read the location and history of that place. Having been in the Royal Air Force, and as a boy in Sussex witnessed a lot of the 'goings on', the 'dog-fights' - the V1 'doodle-bugs' as we called them at the time, etc. I have developed a yen for the historical accuracy of the time.