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Edwin Moon: Southampton Aviation Pioneer & War Hero
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Edwin Moon: Southampton Aviation Pioneer & War Hero

ByM Heighway April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

On 29 April 1920, Edwin Rowland Moon from Southampton – pilot, inventor, and war hero – was killed in a flying accident at Felixstowe. He…

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Nora Caveney: The First ATS Woman Killed in Action
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Nora Caveney: The First ATS Woman Killed in Action

ByM Heighway April 10, 2025April 14, 2025

In the early hours of 17 April 1942, eighteen-year-old Private Nora Caveney was killed by a flying piece of shrapnel whilst working on the predictor…

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Wing Commander Ernest Reginald Baker (DSO, DFC & Bar)
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Wing Commander Ernest Reginald Baker (DSO, DFC & Bar)

ByM Heighway February 17, 2025February 18, 2025

This article is dedicated to the memory of Wing Commander Ernest Reginald Baker DSO,DFC and Bar (known as Reg Baker). He was a successful fighter…

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How Hitler Inadvertently Helped Fund a New Forest Spitfire
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How Hitler Inadvertently Helped Fund a New Forest Spitfire

ByM Heighway January 18, 2025January 18, 2025

I’ve researched many interesting human stories connected to the New Forest during the Second World War, but one of the most intriguing and somewhat ironic…

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The Hampden Crash at Longdown: the Mystery of Missing & Unidentified Bodies
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The Hampden Crash at Longdown: the Mystery of Missing & Unidentified Bodies

ByM Heighway December 14, 2024December 17, 2024

At half past midnight on the 15th of December 1941, four men took off in a Handley Page Hampden twin-engine medium bomber from RAF Balderton, an…

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Lieutenant Anthony Tracy’s Seafire Crash & Death off Calshot in 1947
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Lieutenant Anthony Tracy’s Seafire Crash & Death off Calshot in 1947

ByM Heighway December 12, 2024December 12, 2024

On 12 December 1947, Lieutenant Anthony Peter Hanbury Tracy of the Royal Navy, was killed when the Seafire he was piloting, crashed into the Solent…

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How RAF Calshot Welcomed Tristan da Cunha Evacuees in 1962
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How RAF Calshot Welcomed Tristan da Cunha Evacuees in 1962

ByM Heighway November 3, 2024November 3, 2024

The British Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. Its closest inhabited neighbour is the island of…

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The Crash of Wellington T2564 and a Tragic Connection to Brockenhurst
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The Crash of Wellington T2564 and a Tragic Connection to Brockenhurst

ByM Heighway October 20, 2024November 8, 2024

On the 18th of October 1942, a terrible accident happened near South Ruislip train station in Uxbridge, Middlesex, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, with…

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Mosquito (NS882) Crash in Lymington & the Death of Donald MacNicol
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Mosquito (NS882) Crash in Lymington & the Death of Donald MacNicol

ByM Heighway October 15, 2024October 15, 2024

On the 10th of October 1944, a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI crashed in a field off Lower Pennington Lane, near Lymington. Flight Sergeant…

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