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Martlesham Heath in 1944
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Martlesham Heath in 1944
Martlesham Heath airfield in 1944.
The negative edge marking suggests that this exposure was taken with a F24 aerial reconnaissance camera.
I found this image of Martlesham Heath airfield, taken on 19 April 1944, on the Historic England website. That site provides the means to embed their images in other web pages using Smartframe technology, which is what I have done here. The picture is aligned close to north-up, which makes it convenient to compare with modern maps.
Curving across the top left corner of the picture is the main road from Ipswich to Woodbridge. Joining it near the top of the photo is another road running north-south. This has the distinction, as it passes southwards across Martlesham Heath towards Brightwell, of crossing the main east-west runway of the airfield. There was some sort of traffic control system! Near where that road runs off the bottom edge of the picture, there is a strip of woodland running off to the left and then down off the picture at a slight angle. Although many other features such as roads and buildings have changed dramatically in over half-a-century, that woodland is still visible in modern aerial photographs, together with a tiny fragment of the NE/SW runway just north of the western end of the woodland - see an example on Google Maps here.
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