🎞 Rednal Airfield photo album
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Work in progress; there is no particular order or ranking.
These pictures are Rednal-related, though not all taken at/in/on/over Rednal Airfield. It is not known if that of Beurling in the snow was taken elsewhere. We know of no pictures of Clostermann at Rednal. There is a missing wartime propaganda film shot over Rednal. As well as British and Commonwealth service personnel, we are very interested to know more about free-French, free-Belgian, free-Polish, free-Czechoslovak and all staff, groundcrew and pilots who worked, flew and lived in, around and over the airbase; we would like to know more about them and document their service. And in all cases we would be very grateful for any images, information and permissions thereon to include herein. Contact us here.
March 2017. Someone with insufficient flying experience came a cropper in a nearby field having flown from Rednal. Ironically, these "Pitts S-2 Special" planes are renown for their aerobatic prowess. Accident refs: ASN , AAIB , SFS
Unknown Polish airman, possibly at Rednal. OTU-61 had its own Polish subdivision and RT operator. The free-Polish pilots were brave, cheerful and fearless - people like Wojda, Zgainski, Mazur and many others trained at Rednal.
Spitfire over Rednal - (c) IWM
Spitfire over Rednal - (c) IWM
Pilot and groundcrew at Rednal - (c) IWM
John Caulton & Mk1 Spitfire of OTU61 at Rednal in 1942.
Blister hanger in background.
Pilot and groundcrew at Rednal - (c) IWM
View down 4/22 looking NE before the weeds started taking over.
George Frederick Beurling
DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar
aka "Buzz", 'Screwball'.
Extremely able, legendarily skilled, tenacious, tough, fearless maverick Canadian pilot.
Cpl. Vera Isherwood in the control tower
Douglas 'DAKOTA' C-47s on the runway bringing in the wounded from Normandy after 'D-day'
The paperwork of flight training
Pierre Henri Clostermann
DSO, DFC & Bar
Photo album - must find citation
Pierre Henri Clostermann DSO, DFC & Bar
Military transport vehicle, chaps and Cpl. Vera Isherwood.
Account of a near-miss at Rednal by a dangerous fool, proud of his poor airmanship, amused by putting others in danger, and stupid enough to brag about the episode by posting on a public forum (pprune). Perplexing that these sorts are able to pass, let alone keep, a PPL.
Rednal station goods yard
Rednal station looking SE
Rednal station & signal box
Rednal station looking NW
Battlefield HQ pillbox
Gullwing machine-gun emplacement
The old 'Bone Works' at Rednal's railway-canal interchange.
Battlefield HQ pillbox with local farmer's attempt at demolishing it apparent.
Zenon Krzeptowski possibly at Rednal
UK Spitfire MkII OTU61 Rednal November1942
Marian Lis & Eugeniusz Jaworski; died in training
Eugeniusz Jaworski's funeral
Memorial plaque to Jean Noizet in Rue des Généraux Cuvelier, 6820 Florenville, Wallonia, Belgium.
NB: Kynnersley and Hincks misspelled.
Idris Hasan Latif - 1st on the left in Winter 1944 at Rednal - a long way from Hyderabad. Flying Officer 'Biblo' Crishna on right.
20-year-old Flight Officer Idris Hasan Latif on the wing of a frosty Spitfire parked at Rednal in February 1944, no doubt eager to see action out East. Blister hanger in background left.