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Following the
evacuation of British and allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940 Winston Churchill,
Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, put in place a long-term plan to invade
France. The Special Operations Executive was set up – a TOP SECRET organisation
to support resistance groups in occupied Europe with arms, ammunition, food,
medical equipment, training, targets to attack and people to assassinate. The main
airfield they were flown out from was RAF Tempsford, Mid-Bedfordshire. It was
designed by an illusionist. The locals never knew what went on there. They weren’t
meant to. Many of those involved signed the Officials Secrets Act and for the
rest of their lives never divulged what went on. Some did. My years of research
can now reveal all – well – most of it history.
A brief overview of RAF Tempsford Suggested reading Tempsford
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RAF Tempsford: Bedfordshire’s Top Secret Airfield
during World War Two
Its construction, 138 Squadron, 161 Squadron, ground crew, their
airplanes, top secret missions, agents, preparation, accidents, the Americans
at Tempsford, the airfield since the war and some of the requisitioned local ‘Stately
‘Omes of England - Hasells Hall, Gaynes Hall, Woodbury Hall, Tempsford Hall,
Tetworth Hall
The Women of RAF Tempsford: Bedfordshire’s Top Secret
Airfield during World War Two
an investigation of the women and girls associated directly and
indirectly – catering staff, WAAF, FANY, WVS as well as the more than fifty
sent out on TOP SECRET missions into occupied Europe, a number to their deaths
a historical faction of a woman trained as a secret agent by the Special
Operations Executive and flown out of RAF Tempsford to work with the resistance
in occupied France, her arrest, interrogation, torture, escape and return to ‘Blighty’
following by a second mission to help ensure the D-Day plans for southwest
France take place.