- Contributed by听
- Bucksevacuee
- People in story:听
- The Spitfire crews of RAF Northolt 1944
- Location of story:听
- Ruislip, Middlsex
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A4245536
- Contributed on:听
- 22 June 2005
At the end of May/beginning of June 1944. I was staying with Auntie Betty (wh figures in one of my earlier contributions) at her house at South Ruislip, Middlesex, which is about a mile from RAF Northholt. I noticed that there was a great increase in the number of take-offs and landings. I wa used to seeing the Spitfires coming back from whereever with lumps hanging down or parts shot away, wheneever I stayed there. But on these particular days my attention was drawn to the vertical black and white stipes painted under the wings next to the fuselage and wandered what they signified.In those May/June days we may not have realised that were witnessing part of the softening up of the nazis defences and the beginniing of the end of World War 2.
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