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2nd Airborne Company RAOC

NAAFI Corner c1955 Ref: W253015
NAAFI Corner c1955
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Hi I was at Arnhem camp in 1958/59. This was where the heavy drop platforms were rigged with Landrover+trailer, before being transported to Abingdon airfield. There they would be loaded into a Beverly aircraft (with the boom doors removed). The RAF would then fly back over Watchfield and drop the platforms on the DZ at Arnhem Camp. I now live in South Australia, on a trip back to the UK in 2009 it was sad to find not much is left of the camp, but it was good to have a pint in the old pub. Happy Days.

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A memory of Watchfield in Oxfordshire shared on Sunday, 8th January 2012.

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