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Entry #: 116

Entry Date: 2010-01-28 21:51:04

Name: Neville Bougourd
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: A fantastic site. I am so glad that I stumbled across it during my research into a Polish flier from 304 Squadron who transferred into 138 Squadron. His name was W/O Antoni Mentlak and he survived the war but left me with a mystery! He took part in Operation Candlestick 423 (in 1943, I think). Can anyone tell me what that was?

Entry #: 115

Entry Date: 2010-01-24 16:34:07

Name: Jill Warby
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: Amazing!

Entry #: 114

Entry Date: 2010-01-16 15:41:39

Name: Steve Harris
Web Site: THIS ONE !
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments:

REPLY TO Marcela Knaiflova.


Please contact us (adding your e-mail address this time), as we have some records we can let you have about SGT Knaifl's flights with 138 squadron in 1941/42, when he was 2nd pilot to F/O Anderle, flying out of RAF Stradishall (before 138 moved to Tempsford).  - Webmaster, Steve Harris


 

Entry #: 113

Entry Date: 2010-01-14 18:18:51

Name: Marcela Knaiflova
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments:

My father was Lt Karel Knaifl No 138 Squadron. When he returned to Czech and was arrested I did not see him again for 20 years. I have nothing of his as he died in 1988 and I went to live in Australia - bad timing as Czech was liberated the year he died. i was never allowed a visa to visit.


Does anyone know of him?

Entry #: 112

Entry Date: 2010-01-02 01:37:03

Name: Robert J Hurst
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: I AM THE PROUD NEPHEW OF SGT MIECZYSLAW WOJCIECHOWSKI, CREWMEMBER OF HALIFAX V9976. MY MOTHER WAS VICTORIA WOJCIECHOWSKI.  I AM A RETIRED U.S. AIR FORCE OFFICER.  WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY PRIDE IN THE SACRIFICE OF MY UNCLE AND HIS TEMPSFORD COMRADES.  SOMEDAY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT TEMPSFORD AND HIS DURNSBACK GRAVE.  GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR KEEPING THEIR MEMORY ALIVE...

Entry #: 111

Entry Date: 2009-12-22 19:29:36

Name: Paul White
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments:

Tempsford Airfield and SOE have become an obsession of mine since reading Susan Helms' wonderful book about Vera Atkins and the girls of SOE, many of whom flew from Tempsford.


I have relations who live at Eltisley ( I live near Bath),and so I think they see rather too much of me, as it is but a stone's throw from Tempsford. I am fortunate to have been given permission by Lady Erroll,to visit the airfield and museum on two or three occasions and I never cease to be overcome by the aura of the whole area! I never want to leave!


I attended Shuttleworth Agricultural College in 1964 and I wish I had known about Tempsford then, as it is so near. No doubt there would have been so much more to see then!


I would dearly love to come to the Remembrance service in 2010, so can anyone tell me, is it ok for anyone to attend?


My sincerest thanks to all those who keep the Tempsford memory alive and to the compilers of this website!


Kindest regards


Paul White

Entry #: 110

Entry Date: 2009-12-10 14:55:32

Name: David Brookhouse
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments:

 I drive from Blunham to Everton about five or six times a year and along the road I get what I can only call a funny feeling at the back of kneck. One day I stoped and saw a small sign saying Tempsford. I looked up Tempsford up on the web only to find your wonderful account of the remarkable men women who flew from what appears know to be only a small piece of grass which was the airfield. Its for some reason that I have what I can only call a sixth sense about this site


David Brookhouse

Entry #: 109

Entry Date: 2009-12-01 09:03:22

Name: Francois A. Dumas
Web Site: FSAddon Publishing
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: I found this website on researching for the Westland Lysander and its SOE operations in WW2.

I am a publisher of Flight Simulator add-ons, a life-long WW2 and aviation 'buff' and regular visitor of British aviation museums and old airfields.

Our 'Lizzie' modeled after the one still flying at Old Warden will be ready soon (for Flight Simulator X), including a number of operations as carried out during the war.

This is one of my 'pet projects' and will probably be a financial disaster, but in this case I really don't care. I just hope to keep some of this knowledge alive and known by younger generations.

Kind regards from Holland,
Francois

Entry #: 108

Entry Date: 2009-11-11 17:54:47

Name: Steve Harris
Web Site: Remembrance Day Service at Tempsford
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: A webpage is now up on the site, detailing the events of last weekend (link given above). Any donations of photos for that page by any TVAR member present on the airfield on Sunday will be gratefully received, and we'll add the best ones to that page. - Steve

Entry #: 107

Entry Date: 2009-11-09 19:00:15

Name: Jean Carlyle-Lyon
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: I also attended Tempsford this weekend, both at the Crown Pub, Gibraltar Farm Barn for the Remembrance Service and The Wheatsheaf Inn for lunch on Sunday. I had the strangest feeling when we drove through the gates and towards the runway. Someone said to me later "did you feel the Tempsford Shudder" - well, yes I did. I could just feel my mother around me and could just imagine her driving those airmen to their aircraft.

Thanks to everyone who made me and my husband welcome. It was a magical day.

Entry #: 106

Entry Date: 2009-11-09 12:45:33 -- Edited On: 2009-11-10 20:06:00

Name: Cathrine J Feldhahn nee Ward
Site Rating: 10
Visitor Comments: Thank you for all involved in this site. I found it very interesting looking up my Uncle Sergeant Leo Peter Ward, Air Gunner 138 Squadron 1943.

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