the People Living in Freedom because of our Sacrifices I think Not

and where and when did the Thumbs down serve ?????

Yes but it is Only one of thousands of sites It is time to move on and place a Memorial in the new complex to show what was there

I was in London during the Blitz do we make the site of every doodle bug and V2 that crashed an Historic site ??

How stupid would it be to save all 15000 concentration camps across Europe save a few Biggan Hill for example

Just about everything east of Suez has gone without a whimper

Changi in Singapore My favorite RAF WW 2 station is now Changi International

if the UK wants to save its heritage they NEED to do away with death duties

because Britain’s Heritage will be sold to the USA to pay death duties Look what happened to the Duke Of Bedford to keep Britain’s treasures he had to open a theme park to pay his debit Just because his father died

Over the Next 100 years we will loose a thousand Stately homes to developers because of death duties

How many VC holders sell their medals to live

North Weild is WW2 i love the markets and used to watch the Bike races but How people from ww2 are still alive at today’s count there is less than 5 % of the population that were actually alive to fight in WW2

is it Fair that some old runway that means nothing to a 16 year old not be used to build him a flat or House

Yes i miss the bases i was on RAF Laarbruch is now Weeze airport and all the old Buildings are being demolished the local town has a small museum

in Australia the second oldest air force we have Virtually closed Point Cook the First RAAF station 1919

it is sad that the Historic Airstrips of WW2 are disappearing But the Imperial war Museum can only sustain so many stations and the rest must Go

I understand How you feel and i sympathise with you the only solution to save the memory of these Historic sites is a Placard with a metal Engraving showing from this point and the Military Station Layout

It will have to be inside somewhere because it will be stolen by Vandals and People like me who want a souvenir

I was at the Sydney Olympic Games working in the Village

went back 3 years late every location from then gone except a placard saying this was the site of the Olympic Village 2000 with a map

Every time i go back to the UK for a visit i find places that no longer exist Magnificent Buildings Historic Buildings Like Assembly Passage where My grand mother worked and Lived in 1886 heading for the developers

the Biggest insult was the Cemetery in London where the council used 20,0000 monuments as road fill.and abandoned the Site I was unable to find anything related to my grandfather who was buried there in 1909

I wish you well and thank you for igniting all these memories
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Retired Warrant Officer 9 years in RAF and 29 years in Australian Air Force Ex Gun Plumber Explosives Ordnance Engineer

I worked on Lancasters Spitfires Wellingtons Hurricans Shalkeltons Canberras Supermarine Swifts Javlins Hunters English Electric Lightnngs Victors vulcans Valiants Hastings Bristol Freighters Vampires Venoms Meteors and TSR2 all gone Now But Love G for George in the Canberra War Memorial Museum in Australia

That fact is we’re not facing the threat of massed Soviet bombers anymore, so the RAF is turning into a force designed for close support of ground forces, with a secondary air defence capability. We don’t need to keep a large number of airbases active in the UK.
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Let me put it another way, would it just become a paying attraction? For the benefit of visitors to the UK? What about the people who live here now and need homes?
You have to weigh it up on both sides.
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we remember those brave men that fought for the worlds freedom.

there’s no need to keep old bases open to do this
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I am originaly from Lincolnshire and there are dozens of closed airfields not only from the second world war but from the great war