Dakota at Perdiswell.
basil | 9/18/2005 | 11:36 am
Clark Gable’s Dakota crashed at Perdiswell, Worcester .
Idiots Delight crashed at Perdiswell in 1942 it carried General Spaatzs and Clarke Gable.
Crashed Dakota (Idiots Delight) at Perdiswell Aerodrome, Worcester. 1942.
Clark Gable 8th AF Britain 1943.
Airmen at Perdiswell, Worcester.
Pilots from all over the Empire came to train in Tiger Moths at Perdiswell.
In the distance is my brothers nannies house, where I spent the War in the front garden dodging the planes and bullets. Max
Flying officer Davis was billited with the Sinclair family at Worcester, for four years in 1943.
De Haviland Tiger Moth.
This is the aircraft type in which hundreds of young men were taught to fly at Perdiswell, Worcester during the 1939-45 War. From this basic trainer they went on to bravely fly, and die, in Spitfires, Hurricanes , Lancaster’s, Beaufighters, Mosquitoes and a wide variety of general purpose aircraft. Max.
Pitchcroft, Worcester. 1928, A fatal crash. Worcester Royal Infirmary in background.
Pitchcroft, Worcester. 1928 Another view of Lt. Paul’s fatal crashed Biplane.
