True Ghost - Mystery Stories from the pen of Bruce Barrymore Halpenny … the foremost writer on airfields and ghosts.
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The faint throb of a Lancaster Bomber returning in the morning mist, from a bombing raid in Germany,
reaches the long abandoned airfield ... A dog runs to greet his master, even though he failed to return
from an Operational Sortie years before ... A light flickers from a derelict Control Tower and in the
distance – the sound of young men laughing and singing ... this is the world of Ghost Stations™ by
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny.Bobby’s Vigil
Royal Air Force Ludford Magna opened as a heavy bomber station in 1943. It was a bleak windswept site high on the
Lincolnshire Wolds and for the duration of the war it housed No. 101 Squadron. This was a Special Duties Squadron whose
task was radio counter-measures and special equipment was carried in their ...
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Haunted Hornchurch
In 1957 Ray Downs was called up for his National Service and after training at West Kirby was posted to RAF
Hornchurch in April. He was an admin orderly; referred to as a Jack-of-all-trades, and after a few weeks he became a
voluntary member of the crash crew attached to the Fire Station. ...
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The Manby Ghosts
In 1974 RAF Manby in Lincolnshire became a victim of the defence cuts and closed after a long period of
faithful service. It had opened in 1939 as No.1 Air Armament School and many armament officers, bomb aimers,
air-gunners and armourers passed through….
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The Montrose Ghost
The Royal Flying Corps first occupied Montrose early in 1913, when No.2 Squadron, under the command
of Major C. J. Burke, moved north from Farnborough.
The airfield was sited right on the coast and at the outbreak of war in 1914 it became a training station. Numerous
reserve and training squadrons were ...
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Footsteps In The Night
In 1975 Dave Sutton joined the Royal Air Force and after his training he was posted to RAF Waddington
near Lincoln. As a clerk, he was assigned to the general registry in Station Headquarters - SHQ; and one of the
duties involved being Duty Clerk about once every four to six weeks. This entailed ...
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Saved By The Ghost Of His Brother
Bill Corfield had just one ambition - to be a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force like his elder brother,
Jimmy. As a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, he looked up to his brother when he was home on leave in the early days of the
war; and was proud to see his brother in uniform. In a kind of way it was a sort of ‘Biggles’ hero worship ...
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