February 2019 – Page 4 – North East at War

24th April 1941 – Air Raid

00:10 hours: Raid 94, 1 aircraft at 8000ft entered sector from Thornaby area and turned east out to sea over Sunderland at 00:28 hours. There

RAF Airfields/Bases, World War 2

RAF Eshott near Felton opened in November 1942 and for the duration of the war was home to 57 Operational Training Unit (O.T.U.) who specialised

Aircraft Accidents, World War 2

A little known memorial in the Holly Bush Inn at Greenhaugh remembers six young lives lost on a remote fell in Northumberland. At around 11:00