RAF Twinwood Farm

52.1811, -0.4861 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Twinwood Farm opened in Bedfordshire in 1942 as a night-fighter and training station, flying Bristol Beaufighters and de Havilland Mosquitoes with an operational training unit and several squadrons. The field is best remembered as the place from which the American bandleader Major Glenn Miller took off on 15 December 1944, bound for France in a small transport aircraft that vanished over the Channel. The restored control tower now houses a Glenn Miller museum, and the site hosts an annual festival.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Twinwood Farm — Wikipedia and Twinwood Farm — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Twinwood Airfield. Twinwood Airfield is notable as being the airfield from which Glenn Miller set off on his last journey before being lost over the English Channel.
ⓘ licence & creditPeter Roberts / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twinwood_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_595.jpgView source & full licence →
YFO818 is a 1944 Scammell Pioneer SV2S Heavy Breakdown vehicle on display at the former RAF Twinwood Farm in 2002
ⓘ licence & creditMilborneOne / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ScammellPioneer-YFO818.jpgView source & full licence →
RAF Twinwood Control Tower restored in 2002 it contains a tribute to Major Alton Glenn Miller who took his final flight from here on the 15th December 1944. Photograph taken by MilborneOne
ⓘ licence & creditMilborneOne at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAFTwinwoodControlTower.JPGView source & full licence →
RAF Twinwood Farm (UK Royal Air Force airbase) Control Tower
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Aerial photograph of Milton Ernest (Twinwood Farm) airfield looking north, the control tower and airfield code are beneath the runway intersection, 28 March 1948. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/CPE/UK/2546. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Twinwood_Farm_-_28_Mar_1948_Airphoto.jpgView source & full licence →

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