Tangmere

Flying back to Tangmere he thought of the letter he would write his aunt.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

The schoolboy just had time to finish his model of the Spitfire before the trains started running again and he had to leave Tangmere to go back to Herefordshire and those boring history lessons.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

The assistant consulted a list. '29 squadron and 23 squadron, they're both night fighters, have moved into Martle-sham. 65 is on the way from Turnhouse to Boscombe, 145 to Tangmere, 151 to Gravesend, 605 and 232 to Boscombe, 92 and 238 to Filton.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

One of the lucky ones was James Scott, a Spitfire pilot based at Tangmere near Chichester.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

'I need transport back to Tangmere,' yelled Scott above the din.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

He'd learnt to fly the aircraft all right and duly became a fully fledged pilot officer in this Auxiliary squadron at Tangmere after twelve hours and fifteen minutes Spitfire experience.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

Tangmere was a pleasant grass airfield in Sussex countryside that war could not spoil.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

On one of my last days at Tangmere I have an illuminating discussion with the R.A.F. boys attending a course at the school.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

We land some twenty miles inland on the aerodrome at Tangmere, the R.A.F. formation leaders 'school.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

At the time of this visit that well-known R.A.F. character, Dick Atcherley, was the Commandant at Tangmere.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973