During 2024 we are presenting the image from the Club calendar in the newsletter for that month, with some details about the picture, including when and where the photo was taken. For November we chose the evocative photo of BBMF Spitfire Mk Vb AB910, taken by Club member Andy Bell.
Header Image: Aerial view of the crater at RAF Fauld after the explosion on 27th November 1944.
The two World Wars left indelible marks on the lands over which they were fought; from the scarring of the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War to the remnants of the Mulberry harbour off Arromanches, Normandy, in the Second World War. As we approach Remembrance Day this year it is worth reflecting on a scar on the landscape in a quiet corner of Staffordshire, which tells of the loss of many lives, military and civilian, eighty years ago this month on 27th November 1944, in a war-related accident.
For this month’s Club members’ ballot prize, we’re giving away a very special copy of Lisa Harding’s book, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in Photos - it flew in the Lancaster on Members’ Day. We will randomly select one Club member to win the book.
