RAF Winkton was a prototype for an Advanced Landing Ground, of the type the 9th Air Force was to use when bases moved to France and later Germany following D-Day. RAF Winkton was used until early July, and returned to farming by September, 1944. For additional art, click on Collections buttons for dropdown menus
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The former RAF East Kirkby is now the home to the Lincolnshire Heritage Aviation Center and houses a number of historic aircraft including a Hawker Hurricane and Lancaster shown here. During WW2, it was a Bomber Command station for the RAF 57 and 630 Squadrons flying Lancasters. After the war the US Air Force used the base as an Air Rescue station.
In 1981, it was bought by two brothers and transformed to be an air museum. “Just Jane” the gate guardian Lancaster bomber from RAF Scampton, is one of three operational Lancasters in existence and is regularly taxied out. It cannot fly until the museum can afford an Air Worthiness Certificate. 25% of all net profits of this art will be donated to LHAC for the express purpose getting such a certificate, so please help this worthy cause.
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The Normandy American Cemetery and Monument was established at Colleville-sur-Mer to honor American troops who died in Europe during World War Two. The cemetery covers 172 acres and contains the remains of 9,387 Americans.
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Plutonium Valley is a six square mile valley in Area 11 on the Nevada Test Site, where in the early 1950’s, the AEC exploded 10,000 tons of TNT packed around a B-52 bomber and its nuclear device to simulate what could happen in a crash. The A-Bomb itself did not explode, but particles of plutonium were dispersed over a wide area which to this day remains accessible only to those wearing Rad suits and respirators as the environment will be contaminated for 400 generations. We could not enter, and after being greeted by the sign on the gate, my desire to get closer diminished. My Geiger counter finally had something abnormal to count.
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Occasionally the Nevada Test Site sells off surplus properties, which are most usually ‘command posts.’ I was told they are not radioactive, although my Geiger counter reacted by being placed near the skin of this ‘command post’. I went inside a few and while the Geiger counter beeped, I don’t think it was any more radioactive than say standing in front of the Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC.
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This small suite of rooms in the MacDonald Ranch farmhouse sits deserted on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). These rooms are where the ‘gadget’ was assembled after its arrival by car from Los Alamos. The tower holding the bomb was a short distance away, so the core was assembled and wired together in this desert farmhouse. Those assembling the gadget imagined the atomic bomb might set fire to the atmosphere.
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It sounds like it ought to be a rock band, but these were built to be destroyed in 1955. They have mostly weathered the storm, although at various times the Army used them for target practice despite being on the Historic Register of protected places. The tank was a test vehicle which became irradiated after a DU round pierced the hull and bounced around inside.
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Juno Beach was between the British beaches of Sword and Gold, and the invading forces were the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and commando elements of the Royal Marines. Their objective was to sever the Caen – Bayeux road and railroad. The landing zone […]
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