Hi, Has anyone anything at all,no matter how trivial,on RAF Skipton on Swale.Any stories,photographs or contact from anyone who served there(air or groundcrew) would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Hi Linzee, Researching for a possible book.
Was born at Skipton 1949,virtually grew up on the old airfield so it is of special interest.Still go back there from time to time to soak up the atmosphere.
Thanks for your reply. An interesting project. In addition to anything that may be posted on this thread, you might also like to look at the Wartime Memories Project website and the info they have on Skipton on Swale http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/skiptononswale.html
Some of the Sqdns that flew from there are listed and may have Squadron Associations that you could contact (check here for Associations http://www.associations.rafinfo.org.uk/ )
Good luck and keep us posted with your progess.
Linzee
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Are you planning to raise funds for charity, or is it intended as a local history project?
Will it be published for sale locally to Skipton on Swale, or do you have a lucrative contract with an international publishing house with film, television and media rights and projects in tow?
Will you be crediting all contributers?
We would like to know, to what we would be contributing , and why.
Hello, Yes it is initially a local history project about one of the 'fogotten'airfields.
All contributors will of course be credited.
I hope to publish the book myself but I am just begining the project and much research needs to be done.Any help at all would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Hi , Your post interests me.
You will know that RCAF Squadrons operated from Skipton . The Flight Engineers were RAF .
I was a Flight Engineer with 433 Squadron from August 1944 to March 1945. The aircraft were Halifax 111's later converted to Lancasters. I took part in 30 missions flying in Halifax's, then Lancasters .
Hello John, l was interested in your comments.Have l contacted you before or is your name familiar to me through 433 records?
Feel free to contact me off board.Would like to chat. Regards,Mike
My father, Allan Harpell was a bomb aimer on a Lancaster with Sqn. 424 at Skipton during WWII. My wife and I plane to visit within the next year or two and would like to see where my father served. Would you have any suggestions of where we should go. thanks
Hi Tom, Nice to hear from you.My research has been quite extensive but alas,never ending with all the constant updates. Who was your fathers pilot?
lf you decide to visit l will be more than happy to give you a tour of the old airfield and the haunts of the crews.l have had so much information provided by ex aircrews of 424 and 433 squadrons as well as invaluable photographic copies,and am eternally grateful to all.The old airfield is quite run down these days,bombed and strafed by time,but enough remains to get the general picture of life in a quite Yorkshire hamlet.
Hi, some info availabe from author and owner of book listed in message title - per 433 Porcupine Sqdn. contact rod with above listed email -- porcupine pal.
Hi, some info availabe from author and owner of book listed in message title - per 433 Porcupine Sqdn. contact rod with above listed email -- porcupine pal.
Sorry for not printing in my e-mail -- r.butson@sympatico.ca -- I am Rod Butson, the author of the book, Pride of the Porcupines 433 Sqdn. RCAF by Roderick L. Butson (2001)-- my book has listings of all Ops,all aircraft, all the crews on Ops, some photos from that era, which were graciously lent to me from veterans of that squadron -- I was in contact with Wing Commander A.J. Lewington and many more pilots and aircrew who did the Ops over enemy territory -- If you need info -- contact me by e-mail -- I am sorry but my book is out of print -- but I can usually help if questions are about 433 Porcupine Squadron.
