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It's rare that these airfields have survived in the UK. Beaulieu Heath was an important airfield in WW2, but now it's almost invisible from the ground. Google M

by m0nty 8y ago

It's rare that these airfields have survived in the UK. Beaulieu Heath was an important airfield in WW2, but now it's almost invisible from the ground. Google Maps shows its layout quite clearly still: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8056961,-1.5015827,1429m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8056961,-1.5015827,1429m/dat... Worse perhaps is we're graudally losing that sense of history, of courage and sacrifice. I wouldn't want to be jingoistic about it, but I think people are unaware of what the wartime generations went through.

jabl 8y ago
> Worse perhaps is we're graudally losing that sense of history, of courage and sacrifice. I wouldn't want to be jingoistic about it, but I think people are unaware of what the wartime generations went through. While it pains me as a ww2 buff to say this, I do think that as a society we have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with WW2. And, it's not like it ever made sense to turn East Anglia into some kind of WW2 air war museum. After the war, people wanted their farmlands back, and wanted to continue their lives, and they had every right to do that.