Twin Bases - RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge


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NOTE: Individual additions to Find Buddies will not usually be listed here, because they are relatively frequent, but they will usually appear on Twitter and, therefore, in the scrolling Twitter feed on the Home Page.

February 2010
New memory added to 2010 memories.
New page of memories from Glenn Arlt.

January 2010
Update - even more of the story added to page about the "Olds Plaque".
New page - the "Olds Plaque" has found a good home!

December 2009
New page with link to eBay offer of Robin Olds 81st TFW - Plaque presented by 78th TFS - available now!

November 2009
Added a new memory from Eric Kersey, with photograph, to 2009 Memories page.
Corrected and added links to Links to web sites about specific air bases or squadrons, notably Upper Heyford.
Added a link to a photo or Robin Olds with his F-4 Phantom to the Christina Olds email.

October 2009
Added another video to the Twin Bases videos page in the memorabilia section.

September 2009
Completed de-thumbnailing the entire section of Bentwaters photos - after closure, and re-wrote the navigation for that section, so that the pages are listed in reverse chronological order.

August 2009
New Reunion announcement, 28th.
Completed de-thumbnailing the Return Trips section, 27th - many of them an enjoyable re-read!
Completed de-thumbnailing the Reunion section, 25th
Completed de-thumbnailing the Woodbridge Active section, 24th.
Separated Memoribila from the History section. 23rd.
Three new aircraft photos.
Completed de-thumbnailing of the 81st Aircraft and RAF Bentwaters, Active sections. 22nd.
Completed de-thumbnailing of the Memories section, with memories, trans-Atlantic wives, etc. 14th.
Completed de-thumbnailing of the History section, with Memorabilia, Patches, etc... 13th.
Completed de-thumbnailing of 81st Aircraft section, 13th.
Began the revision of photos to remove small thumbnails and put the 'big pictures' right on the page.
Started with Associated Bases - all nine pages revised, 13th.

July 2009
MAJOR REVISION of the Find Buddies section:
Removed the "posting" years, and combining all posts into a single page for each decade from 1950s until 1990s (this is to allow the Freefind Search feature to continue without increasing costs).
New entry on Memories - John Burchard's A-10
New entry on Memories - the Robin Olds dilemma.
New Reunion entry - 30-year UFO reunion on the Reunion Noticeboard.
New UFO page - 30-year reunion planned (same as item above).
New photo page - HH-53 by Mark Field.

June 2009
Added superb new aerial photo of RAF Woodbridge by Richard Flagg.
Added superb new aerial photo of RAF Bentwaters by Richard Flagg..
Resolved some small CSS errors that have been bugging me.
Changed the colour of the background to the page titles.
Added a link to Richard Flagg's photographs of RAF Woodbridge.

May 2009
Repaired or removed several bad internal links.

April 2009
Added obituary for Joe G McCormack.

March 2009
Link to 2006/2008 photographs of Shepherds Grove
Link to nearly 300 2008 photos of Bentwaters.
Now you can upload your own photos to the Twin Bases website!

February 2009
Obituary for John B (Coon-Ass) McDaniel

January 2009
Added more links to Grovers' websites, and separated them onto a new page for Grovers' Links.

September 2008
Obituary for Thomas G Lokken.

August 2008
Obituary for David Nagy.
Obituary for Chris Bouwhuis.
Publicity for a new book by Robert L Hastings, UFOs and Nukes.
And another memory, triggered from the previous memory announcement...
Added a memories entry for 2008, which was triggered by a memories entry from 1998!

July 2008
Obituary to Charles 'Chuck' Wrobel.
Added news of B-17 Liberty Belle's visit to RAF Bentwaters
Replaced the "FreeFind" search facility with a similar service provided by Google™

June 2008
Added a report of the BCWM open day
Minor layout improvement - changed Find Buddies item separate from --------- to USAFE

March 2008
Updates to the 2008 81st FWA reunion. Link.
And again, new entries in 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Link.

February 2008
New entries in the Find Buddies for 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Link.
Kenneth L Nellermoe obituary. Link.

January 2008
Georgina Bruni obituary. Link.
Another daughter looking for a father. Do you know "Frederick" who had a daughter, with Elsie, in 1954/5? Link.

December 2007
News item about Maharashi Foundation building at Rendlesham. Link.
New content with links to stories by Michael B. Coombs. Link.
New page of photos from RAF Woodbridge in 1974-1976 from John Musselman. Link.
New page of photos from RAF Bentwaters in 1973-1975 from Mark Lance. Link.
Links to three 90s YouTube videos of the Twin Bases, on the Memories page. Link.
Latest update on the AMSL debate over Scott Lowe's photograph! Link.
More memories, with photos. Link.
More searches in Bud Find pages for 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
Two new reports of Buddy Found in 2007. Link.

EARLIER entries are in the What's New Archive.


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