Desborough

DESBOROUGH: Military aerodrome

Note:  Both of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©



Yet another example of a WW2 airfield the outline of which can still be clearly seen seventy years later. As indeed can the extent of the runways.



 

Military users: WW2: RAF Bomber Command         92 Group

84 OTU  (Vickers Wellingtons)

1381 TCU
 

Location: 6nm NNW of Kettering, 1.5 nm SSE of Stoke Albany village

Period of operation: 1943 to 1946
 

Runways: 02/20   1280x46   hard          09/27   1829x46   hard
                14/32   1280x46   hard

 

 

 
 

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richard read

This comment was written on: 2021-02-06 16:44:49
 
Both parents were stationed here. Infact they first met here and later married. Father was on Wellingtons and Mother on radar. Mother still going strong at 97.

 
 

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R Barratt

This comment was written on: 2021-04-29 20:53:12
 
My Dad was stationed there if any one has pictures please share
 

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