RAF Station Middleton St George, the most northerly

WW2 Documentary RAF Station Middleton St George, the most northerly plane station in the British Isles, was opened on the fifteenth of January 1941.

Home to both the RAF and RCAF, Middleton, better referred to locally as Goosepool, gave the springboard to a considerable lot of world war two's most popular plane missions. These incorporate the attacks on the pocket warship Tirpitz, the skirmish of Hamburg, the clash of Berlin, the V2 rocket locales at Penemunde and the notorious Dresden strikes of February 1945.

These, and many different focuses all through Germany and Italy, got the full focus of the squadrons based at Middleton St George between April 1941 and May 1945.

The misfortunes endured by the pilots of the British Isles, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and twelve different nations, who were based at RAF Middleton St George amid world war two, added up to 1,266 slaughtered. Considerably more were harmed, taken detainee or dodged catch.

This book covers the full history of the runway from the earliest starting point of its development in 1938, to the end of threats in the late spring of 1945 and past. Each strike is recorded and every wartime air ship sort based there is highlighted, including the Whitley and the Halifax.

It then proceeds with the landing strip's peacetime preparing part and the changeover from Bomber Command to Fighter Command amid the introduction of the plane time. The RAF stayed at Goosepool until 1964, until spending cuts regarded that RAF Middleton St George was surplus to prerequisites.

The last segment of the book covers the period amid which the runway bade goodbye to the RAF and proclaimed the introduction of Teesside Airport and the new cutting-edge plane carrier travel industry. Teesside Airport flourished amid the post war years and by 2003 it was giving flights to destinations everywhere throughout the world for the populaces of Durham, Cumbria, Teesside and Yorkshire.

Unfortunately, after the runway was assumed control by Peel Holdings amid 2003, for reasons unknown it declined and has turned into a sorry excuse for its previous self.

Today Goosepool's future is indeterminate. Amid the war the Germans were the adversary at the door. Presently it appears that the cash divine beings hold the harmed goblet that could choose the runways destiny.