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6th Canadian Field Company Canadian Royal EngineersThis, with other plaques, is on the side of a DD Sherman tank in Courseulles recovered from the sea. The area was the aiming point for the 7th Canadian Brigade Group whose engineers had the task of
Memorial to ALG B4 Beny sur Mer NormandyThis was used by 401, 411 and 412 Squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force who flew Spitfires as part of 126 Wing. The first aircraft to use the Landing Ground was a damaged Spitfire which came down
Wurzberg radar antenna Douvres Radar StationThis is just outside the Museum which is based in two well preserved bunkers and charts the evolution of radar. The dish, a Wurzberg-Reise, was removed after the war, renovated and returned here
Luftwaffe Radar Station Bunkers Douvres NormandyThis was not only a radar station but as it was on high ground it was a major defensive position with bunkers, barbed wire and minefields. The bunkers are often hidden by crops
Airfield B16 pumping station Moulineaux NormandyThis is proably the only remaining such structure and was stone built for its purpose to pump fuel to the airstrip at Villons le Buissons. Inspection will reveal the signs CARPE DIEM and JULY 1944
Royal Winnipeg Rifles Memorial Plaque CreullyThe Little Black Devils landed on Juno Beach on D Day as part of 3rd Canadian Division. They suffered heavy casualties during the landings. This plaque is in the car park
German Bunker Asnelles Gold Beach NormandyThis defensive bunker posed considerable problems to the units of 231 Brigade who landed here - the Dorsets, the Hampshires and supporting armour of the Essex Yeomanry & Sherwood Foresters
Free French Air Force Memorial ArromanchesThis is in the Place du Groupe d Alsace. The Lorraine and Alsace Groups were part of the FFAF formed by some 200 French pilots in England in July 1940
British War Memorial to the Missing BayeuxThis is directly opposite to the British War Cemetery. It was designed by Philip Hepworth and bears the names of !, 805 Commonwealth service men and women who fell in the Battle of Normandy
First American Cemetery Marker Omaha BeachThis marks the first American battle burials in Europe. It was set up by 2nd Platoon of the 607th Graves Registraton Company
German Gun Bunker Azeville NormandyThis was one of the first parts of the Atlantic Wall to be constructed. There are four casemates 30 metres apart linked by 300 metres of concrete trenches
US Federal Monument Utah BeachThis marks a Memorial Area just behind the beach in which can be found the US Navy Memorial, the 90th Inf Div Memorial, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade Memorial among others
HQ General Maxwell Taylor Hiesville NormandyThis 101st US Airborne Division HQ had been chosen from a map while the troops were still in England and the headquarters was operative by 0900 hours on 6 June 1944
US 377th Infantry Regiment & 95th Division WindowThis is one of two stained glass windows in the church at Trevieres. The other pictures St George and is in memory of Geo L Praz and the American friends of Trevieres
US Cemetery Marker Number 1 St Mere Eglise NormandyThis is one of three markers at the locations of the first American cemeteries. There were 3, 000 soldiers buried here. By 10 June there were eight battlefield cemeteries but these were later
3rd British Infantry Division Memorial NormandyThis is in the small village of Periers sur le Dan some 3 miles inland of Sword Beach where the Division landed on 6 June 1944
Canadian Royal Regina Rifles & 1st Hussars MemorialThis is at Norrey-en-Bessin by the church and is In homage to our Canadian Liberators, 7 June 1944. It is well inland from Juno beach where they had landed
US 354th Fighter Gp Memorial Cricqeville en BessinThis is ALG (Air Landing Ground)A2. The 354th flew fromhere between 17 June 1944 and 15 March 1945. The Memorial was unveiled on 17 September 1990 in acknowledgement of the 354ths part in Operation
German War Cemetery la Cambe NormandyThis was originally an American cemetery for the dead of 29th Division. In 1947 the Americans were either repatriated or buried at the American Cemetery at St Laurent overlooking Omaha Beach
Curtis British Entomology Plate 448Hymenoptera: Lasioglossum tricingulum Curtis (Long-tongued Melitta), = Halictus xanthopus. This is the type description of Lasioglossum Curtis
Curtis British Entomology Plate 399Hymenoptera: Tryphon varitarsus = Hemiteles varitarsus (This being the name listed by Kloet and Hincks for Curtis?s Typhon varitarsus)
Dassault Falcon 20C N804F (msn 5, probably), of Pan American World Airways, somewhere in the UK, during delivery to the US
Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II 152674bUnited States Navy - Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II 152674b (msn 292, base code XE, call-sign 16 ), of VX-5 at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station, in California, on 29 July 1967
Beechcraft F-2-BHUnited States Army Air Corps - Beechcraft F-2-BH. (The 14 F-2s were given the msn 340 to 353 and serial numbers 40-682 to 40-695)
Fieseler Fi 156C Storch D-EDECFieseler Fi 156C-3 Storch D-EDEC (msn 5802) Bofen Die Echten Dellkornbrote. This aircraft was written off in April 1959, but repaired
Morane-Saulnier MS. 502 Criquet F-BEJQMorane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet F-BEJQ (msn 670), equipped as a banner tug. This aircraft was used as a launch platform for Birdman Leo Valentin
Percival Prentice T. 1 G-AOLKPercival Prentice T.1 G-AOLK (msn PAC/225, ex VS618), in storage at Biggin Hill. This aircraft is now on display in its RAF livery, at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon. Date: circa 1965
Westland WS. 55 Series 3 G-APDYWestland WS.55 Series 3 G-APDY (msn WA/241), at the September 1962 SBAC Farnborough Air-Show. Built as the WS-55 Series 2 demonstrator
Procaer F. 15B Picchio I-PROEProcaer F.15B Picchio I-PROE (msn 19), at Le Bourget Airport, for the Paris Air Show in June 1963. This aircraft was later registered G-ARNW in the United Kingdom
Kawasaki Ki-100-I-Otsu (given the RAF maintenance serial 8476M). The sole surviving example at RAF Ternhill for the September 1965 Battle of Britain display
Lockheed P-3A Orion 151370Unites States Navy - Lockheed P-3A Orion 151370 (base code LL, call-sigh 24 ), of VP-30. This P-3A was later converted to TP-3A
Aircraft Engineering Corporation Ace K-1 N69097. This single-seat biplane, powered by a 40hp Ace engine; was designed by Alexander Klemin (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, NYU) and N W Dalton
Douglas DC-6A N6540C (msn 45368, line number 932), of the United States Department of Commerce, attached to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF)
Sikorsky SH-3A 148967United States Navy - Sikorsky SH-3A 148967 (msn 61039, base code NT, call-sign 61 ), of anti-submarine squadron HS-8. This helicopter was converted to SH-3H standard ca 1972
General Dynamics F-16B Fighting Falcon FB70Belgian Air Force - General Dynamics F-16B Fighting Falcon FB-70 of 349 Squadron, at RAF Lossiemouth. Date: 1981
NAMC YS-11 JA8676NAMC YS-11-120 JA8676 (msn 2035) Sinchi Roca of LANSA (Lineas Aeras Nacionales) before delivery to Peru. Once delivered to LANSA, on 28 April 1967, 2026 was re-registered OB-R-857
Ling Temco-Vought A-7B-3-CV Corsair II 154481United States Navy - Ling Temco-Vought A-7B-3-CV Corsair II 154481 (msn B121, unit code AB, call-sign 305), of VA-45 (ATKRON 45), embarked on USS John F
Tupolev Tu-104A CCCP-L5445 (SSSR-L5445, msn 8350401), of Aeroflot, at Keflavik Naval Air Station in Iceland. This Tu-104A was the second of its kind to visit the USA in September 1959
USAF - Douglas C-124C Globemaster II 51-5211United States Air Force - Douglas C-124C Globemaster II 51-5211 (msn 43621) of Troop Carrier Command. This aircraft was struck of charge at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on 13 April 1971 and scrapped
Boeing DH-4M-1 110 of the US Air Mail Service, seen before its modern restoration. The Boeing DH-4 was initially almost identical to the original de Havilland design
Arpin A-1 G-AFGB (msn 1), designed and built by M.B Arpin & Co at Hanworth and first registered on 17 March 1938. This aircraft survived the war but was scrapped in 1946. Date: 1938
Royal Air Force - Messerschmitt Me 410A-3 Hornisse TF209 (Werknummer 10259). This Me 410 was captured at Monte Corvino in Italy and arrived at the RAE on 14 April 1944
USAF - North American F-100C-15-NA Super Sabre O-41823United States Air Force - North American F-100C-15-NA Super Sabre O-41823 (54-1823) (msn 217-84) of the 452nd Fighter Squadron, 322nd Fighter Group, Foster AFB, Victoria, TX
Conroy Super Turbo Three N156WC. The second RR Dart powered conversion by Conroy was a surplus Douglas R4D-8-C-117D and was called the Super Turbo Three
United States Navy - Lockheed P2V-5F 124870 (Model 426-42-06), of Fleet Air Service Squadron-102 (FASRON-102). This aircraft was later converted to a P2V-5FE (EP-2E) Elint - EW platform. Date: 1950s
United States Air Force - Lockheed YF-94B Starfire 49-2497United States Air Force - Lockheed YF-94B-5-LO Starfire 49-2497 (msn 780-7019), of the Wright Air Development Center (WADC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (W-P AFB)
Grumman XA2F-1 Intruder 147864. The first prototype of the A2F Intruder (later A-6), at around the time of its first flight
United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII