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  • Conservation Works are underway!

    Conservation Works are underway!

    It’s truly an exciting time as our Conservation works programme is now fully underway with both our contractors onsite. They’ll ...
  • For king and another country - Sqn Ldr Mahinder Sigh Pujji

    For king and another country - Sqn Ldr Mahinder Sigh Pujji

    From British aces Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnson, to the great South African Sailor Malan and American Art Donahue, Kenley ...
  • Ann Welch - Aviatrix Extraordinaire

    Ann Welch - Aviatrix Extraordinaire

    To date most of our stories about Kenley have featured men. To mark International Women’s Day 2017 on 8 March we thought it was timely to record the amazing life of one of Britain’s foundation glider pilots who had a Kenley connection. Ann Welch (1917-2002) was a world class glider pilot and an aviator who flew more than 100 aircraft types, from gliders to Wellington bombers.
  • 18 August 1940 - A German Perspective

    18 August 1940 - A German Perspective

    Rolf Von Pebal's personal account and photographs of the raid, taken from the Dornier Do.17 flown by Feldwebel Reichel, 9th Staffel/KG76.
  • Two Weeks in July 1942

    Two Weeks in July 1942

    RAF Kenley is probably best known for its key role in the Battle of Britain, but it continued to be a prominent fighter station for the remainder of the war with many squadrons crossing the airfield boundaries. All the squadrons are commemorated on the RAF Kenley Tribute, one such squadron was 350 (Belgian) Squadron.
  • The Diary of Sergeant Wladyslaw Mordasiewicz

    The Diary of Sergeant Wladyslaw Mordasiewicz

    Sergeant Wladyslaw Mordasiewicz was a Polish serviceman who served in the 302 Polish Fighter Squadron during the Second World War. In 1941, 302 Squadron was stationed at RAF Kenley for five months, where Sergeant Mordasiewicz served as an office orderly from 7 April to 5 September. Despite only a short stay, he was able to recount in his diary some notable and interesting occurrences during his time at Kenley.
  • ATTACK ALARM – Hammond Innes’s portrait of Kenley’s Hardest Day

    ATTACK ALARM – Hammond Innes’s portrait of Kenley’s Hardest Day

    Attack Alarm is an espionage novel written by author Hammond Innes, who was stationed at Kenley as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain. Not a great deal is known about Innes’s service in the Royal Artillery between 1940-1946, but his book written and published during the war offers an invaluable and detailed account based on his time at Kenley, most notably the devastating attack on 18 August 1940, Kenley’s Hardest Day.
  • Kenley’s First Wartime Christmas

    Kenley’s First Wartime Christmas

    Here is the 1939 entry in RAF Kenley’s Operations Record Book 1 for the first wartime Christmas Day
  • An unexpected guest at dinner – June 1927

    An unexpected guest at dinner – June 1927

    Due to its proximity to London, RAF Kenley received many famous visitors over the years. Possibly none more so than the 25 year-old Charles A. Lindbergh in June 1927, following an epic 33½ hour first solo crossing of the Atlantic from New York to Paris in his aircraft the Spirit of St Louis.
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