"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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ubject: Memorial day in Cambridge UK
From: "Brian Colwell"
Date: 6/1/04 2:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: 5%6vc.640170$oR5.170110@pd7tw3no


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Memorial day in Cambridge UK
From: "Keith Willshaw"

Any ceremonies at Stansted, the home of the ol' 344th?


I dont know but I doubt it Art, Stansted is
now a major commercial airport.


Originally it was a cowpasture. It got levelled, they lay down a runway
and
threw up a load of Niessen huts and we (the 344th moved) moved in. Now
a
major
commmercial airport. eh. I guess the ol' 44th left a mark of greatness
on
that
ol' cowpasture. (grin)


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Art,
They now move approx. 200 million passengers a year and it is the
4th
busiest aiport in the UK...see what you started :-))

Regards, BMC




Who'da thunk it. from that little airdrome with one runway and a load of
shacks
it is now a major airport... Guess I'd never recognise the old field now.
But
I'll always remember it the way it was. When it wasn't cloaked in a
peasouper,
it was raining like hell.(sigh)

It is the airport of choice for hijacked aircraft to be diverted to!

John