We are in the process of making a TV documentary which will either prove or dispel the myths surrounding airfield dump sites & the rather elongated stories describing what was buried in them.
I would of course love to eat my words & find these crated Jeeps, Harley Davidson's, Whole Aircraft, Crates of M1's, Brand New Engines & the like however this will remain to be seen in the near future.

The past few weeks has seen a flurry of activity at numerous 8th AF bases conducting geophysical surveys using the latest ground penetrating radar kit, the results from some of these are pretty tantalising; however technology still hasn't evolved sufficiently to produce an 'x-ray' image of what is extant.

Our filming will begin at Rougham P2P weekend on the 4th Oct, I would like to invite some of the 'Breakout' crew who I shared the day with to get involved for a bit of filming if of course you are agreeable, GI gear is compulsory!!

It will be the introduction to documentary giving a little background on the interest we all share & to provide some media coverage for the 94th BG projects. This will move on to more filming back here at the farm, then we will prepare the sites for excavation to be filmed mid October.

If anyone is interested in participating on the 4th Oct, can you please let me know in advance so that I can get an idea of numbers.

Thanks

Simon

Simon,

You may have seen that we have made a start uncovering the TBC/ Nissen on the Tech site by the 4th it should be nice a tidy round there and the buildings empty. Good place to film

Regards

Alan

Paul Bellamy & I had a 'little' dig this weekend at a dump site....here's a few pictures to begin.

Indeed.

There's nothing like a good dump first thing on a Sunday morning.

Oil & watery mire..

Crikey,

nice work guys, that looks like quite a bit of excavation went into getting that lot out.

Cheers Dave

Look at the oxygen bottle? got one of them

Ammo feed chutes?

40 round ammo cans? got one of them as well

But sadly no blue bunny suit was mugged for it

MIKE.

Wow some amazing finds there...
I guess you have to be on the lookout for live ordnance amongst that so softly softly!

Is that a turret ring top right?

Ammo chutes...drooool

It a b24 station you be punderin?

So whats gona happen to all this wonderful booty then? Museum or personal collections?

M

It looks like it was a B-24, B-17, B-26, P-38, P-51, P-47 & Ju-88 base......

Paul B has been helping ID parts for future use, Ellie Sallingboe was contacted yesterday in respect to us donating the new unused spares we found to keep her B-17 flying once they have been yellow tagged.

Yes, we found two top turret frames & the armoured glass sections, the turret ring is indeed top turret. There was a wide range of gear including many miles of Hughes flexible ammo tracking, 50 cal spent link chutes, cleaning rods, Thompson mags & cleaning rods, turret ammo cans, waist gun mounts, 40+ oxy bottles, B-24/B-17 exhaust sections, P-51 exhausts all new, P-51 engine side panels, intercoolers, manifold collector rings, B-17 cowl panels from 95th, 96th, 34th & 401st ID'd aircraft, B-24 cowlings & engine covers, huge sections of bulkheads, ball turret parts, landing gear parts, radio equipment, a really nice US issue gas mask, 40 round ammo cans, P-38 nose 50 cal ammo cans, P-38 supercharger cooler intakes, P-38 new Allison manifolds, mission flasks, dingy inflation bottles, bailout bottles, waist gun ammo cans, cockpit instruments, B-17 right side instrument panel, rudder pedals, seat parts, B-17 glazing panels from cockpit & so much more yet unidentified. There is a huge 10 ton farm trailer unit heaped up with lots more finds yet to be cleaned & sorted. There are another two sites we have yet to dig within a 15 mile radius which contain much more than we saw here this weekend.

Some of the finds will be sold to partially recover some of the enormous costs incurred getting the operation completed. Some will be given to museums although quite a lot went with representatives of many museums this weekend.