Wellesbourne Wartime Museum is situated
on Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield in Warwickshire. Wellesbourne
Mountford is best known for its role in the Second World War, when
it was under control by RAF Bomber Command as an Operational
Training Unit training crews from within the commonwealth and
other countries.
The airfield
was originally opened in 1941 constructed in the typical Class A
airfield design, the main unit to use the airfield was No. 22
Operational Training Unit RAF which flew Vickers Wellingtons and
Avro Ansons for RAF Bomber Command from 14 April 1941.
The museum,
with it's undergound bunker and command post, documents the
history of the airfield which saw the likes of 'Dingy Young',
'Tirpitz Tate'and Arthur Clarke come through it's gates.
Wellesbourne was closed in 1964 and put on care and maintenance
until it was sold back to it's pre-war owners.
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