Twin Bases - RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge


What's new archive - October 2002 to December 2006

Latest update: 23 May, 2009

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December 2007
New page of photos from RAF Woodbridge in 1974-1976. Link.
New page of photos from RAF Bentwaters in 1973-1975. 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.

November 2007
Images of an 81st SPS picnic - unknown date, un-named personnel on the 2007 memories page. Can you help? Link.
Readable images of program for 1967 Bentwaters Phantoms vs Wethersfield Raiders. Link.
Revised the Join Email List from cgi-script to php, and tested. Link.
Images of Armed Services Center - YMCA - Three-fold with map of Ipswich "high spots." Link.
Made technical changes to the way page layout is controlled (all CSS, no tables) to provide faster page-loading.
Photo from Reunion for 78th in Snow Camp NC, 2007. Link.

September 2007
Reunion for 78th TFS in October. Link.
Twenty-one new Find Buddie requests added in September. Link.
Re-introduced a Reunion Noticeboard form for submission and posting on this website. Link.
Revised page layout to be 100% of width of screen, instead of a fixed number of pixels.

August 2007
Five "Buddy Found" reports during August 2007. Link.
New page with photos of Robin Olds' final resting place. Link.
Corrected errors in Find Buddy and report Buddy Found forms.
Photo of buddies reunion after 41 years. Link.

July 2007
Corrected the link from the footer on every page, to Associated Sites: 78th Bushmasters website.
Added link to Sigean - Irish band with Tom Swadley. Link.
Added link to video of Robin Olds honour and tribute news report. Link.

June 2007
Re-activated the Find Buddies submission form. Link.
Separated the FIND BUDDIES (Link) from the BUDDIES FOUND (Link) sections.
Created a separate section for Obituaries. Link.
Moved responses to Robin Olds obituary to a separate page. Link.
Report of and responses to the passing of Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. Link.
Added a news report of the opening of Bentwaters Cold War Museum. Link.

May 2007
17 - Added information about the new definitive history Bentwaters and Woodbridge by Graham Haynes. Link.
5 - Replaced old Site Search with Google Site OR Web Search. On every page!
3 - Replaced Site search with Google Site Search PLUS Google Web Search, on every page.

March 2007
10 - Broke my promise to myself, added another page of photos from Jim Tansey. Link.

February 2007
3 - Added link to YouTube video of the UFO incident. Link.

January 2007
23 - Added another reunion planned for the 79th. Link.
23 - Added photo of another reunion for the 79th. Link.
14 - Corrected all font settings that were lost due to re-naming the site.
13 - Relaunched website as http://TwinBases.org.uk due to technical problems with transferring the site to a new hosting company, following disastrous virus and/or root-kit attack on previous host.

November 2006
21 - Updated the "Planning" page for return trips, for updated accuracy. Link.

October 2006
22 - Added another new "Found Buddy" message. Link.
16 - Added new "Found Buddy" message. Link.
11 - News item regarding te-use of the WSA. Link.

June 2006
9 - New entry in the 1950s-and-earlier Find Buddies. Link.

March 2006
2 - New "special" enquiry for specific F-101 photos. Link
2 - An enquiry looking for a father, 1960s. Link.

February 2006
9 - Added a link to a Veteran's Day Project by Nancy Bisbe, on the PEOPLE Links page, with some great video interviews. Link.

January 2006
27 - 1 Success - First repoted "buddy found" in 2006 !! Link.
26 - 15 Guest book entries from 2006 posted to each decade page. Link.
8 - 20+ Guest Book entries from 2005 and some from 2006 already, posted to appropriate decade pages in the Find Buddies section. Link.
8 - Link to Deben Register Office added to "guidance" page in Find Buddies section (to help find birth certificates, etc.). Link.

December 2005
30 - Another ten Guest Book entries put on the site, from 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.. Link.
16 - Re-designed page masthead, similar to one from 2003.
15 - Fifteen new Guest Book entries. Be sure to check SPECIALS / UNDATED page. Link.
12 - "Secret" filming site of Space Cadets uncovered.
11 - Update to the final chapter in the James Ray Short story. Link.
11 - Added a link to Alan Turnbull's media-provoking Secret Bases web site. Link.

November 2005
27 - Added a Find Buddies from someone I assume is a Brit who emigrated to the US. Link.

October 2005
24 - Added a very special search on the Specials page of Find Buddies. Link.
7 - Added four new entries to the 'found' page. Link.

September 2005
4 - revised navigation and appearance a little.

August 2005
27 - Added just four new Guest Book entries, 3 for the 1960s, 1 for the 1970s. Link.
23 - Replaced and installed a new Site Search facility. Link.
18 - removed the Site Search facility. Link.

July 2005
25 - Added Obituary and In Memoriam pages for Airman James Short. Link.
25 - Removed the off-site LycosGear Guest Book and replaced with emailt-to-compiler form. Link.
23 - Moved details from the on-line guest book to on-site pages - every decade included. Link.
20 - Added a reunion for 81SPS. Link.
16 - Added a reunion for 91st TFS weapons loaders ('65-''75). Link.
13 - Added two new "Found" reports - more success for this web site! Link.

June 2005
20 - Added an obituary for James David "KB" Kreighbaum. Link.
18 - Added a new page with photographs of the Weather Room in the control tower. Link.
18 - Added a new page with photographs of Bldg 567, DCM, and the Training University. Link.
15 - Added feedback regarding Building 398 in the WSA. Link.
15 - Added another dozen or so entries from the Guest Book to the archives. Link.
15 -Added a new entry, with a photo, on the Found Buddies 2005 page. Link.
13 - Added two new links for the origins of Nissen Huts, and Quonset Huts. Link.
9 - Added the MAJOR 81st FWA Reunion, planned for November 2005 in Vegas and Nellis AFB. Link.
4 - Added a page with 14 photos of buildings 658 and 659. Link.
4 - Added a page with 3 photos of the very "interesting" building 398 inside the WSA. Link.
4 - Added a small page with two photos of the return of Jerry Epley and Walter Smith, meeting up again after nearly 40 years apart! Link.
2 - All entries since March 2005, around 50 new Guest Book entries in total, moved to the Guest Book Archives. Again, there are entries on every page of the Find Buddies section: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 'Special' or undated entries. Link.

March 2005
21 - A great success on the find buddies "FOUND" section. Actually not a buddy, but a (previously unknown) family member! Link.
19 - Some forty-odd entries transferred from the Guest Book to the Find Buddies section. ALL decades represented from the 1950s to Mission Complete in 1993. Link.

January 2005
24 - 79th FBS reunion notice. Link.
09 - Transferred 20+ new Guest Book entries from 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s and Special, including a request for input from an author who's writing a new book about the F-101 Voodoo. Link.
09 - Complete but minor re-design of the site, including split Bentwaters photos into Active and Closed sections. Link.

December 2004
13 - Two more 'successes' to report, from postings on this web site. Link.
12 - New photograph of both A and B shifts, Fire Department, c.1984, from John K Hancock. Link.

November 2004
15 - Moved around 40 new entries from the Guest Book to every section of the BUDDIES section. Link.

October 2004
30 - Added new reunion report that includes a photo opportunity with General Robin Olds. Link.
29 - Added links to new Bentwaters Aviation Society web site. Link.

September 2004
29 - Transferred 22 entries from the Guest Book to the GB Archives for 2004. Link.
29 - added a link to the new Vets Roll Call web site. Link.

August 2004
30 - Replaced all email addresses' "@" with "(a)" to prevent email addresses being harvested. It means you will have to change the (a) back to @ in your email program before sending an email.
30 - Revised the page layout slightly, blue surround.
26 - Moved 24 Guest Book entries onto the GB archives - again, new entries for each of the decades from 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, plus at least one good "Buddy Found," and four in the SPECIALS page. Please take a good look at the Specials - I think we have a good change to help a daughter find her father, and he had been trying to find his daughter, so we could have a very happy outcome! Link.
23 - Added new link to Bitburg Reunion and USAF Germany web site for veterans. Link.
22 - Added detailed explanation of one of the murals in WSA. Link.
12 - Added information about Norman Rose's new book "Twin Bases Remembered". Link.

July 2004
31 - Add a link from the Home Page, to Join the TwinBases mailing list. Just a change in the way I send emailed updates to all thos interested in the Twin Bases.
31 - Moved about 30 Guest Book entries onto the GB archives - some from every decade from 50s to 90s, and one 'special.. Link.
11 - Added two new links to patches and photos of the Twin Bases. Link.

June 2004
18 - Posted a Reunion notice for the 79th FBS. Link.
14 - Added a link to Vets4Bush on the Home Page. Link.
13 - Added a link to Veterans for Kerry on the Home Page. Link.
11 - Transferred 20+ entries from the Guest Book into the GB Archives. Link.
04 - New 38 MMS reunion planned - organizer requests help. Link.

May 2004
23 - Another buddy found, using this site. Link.
20 - Added an obituary for Jim Grubbs. Link.
04 - Added an 81st TFW Wing Patch to the Patches page. Link.
02 - Moved about 50 entries from the external Guest Book to the on-site GB Archives. Link.

March 2004
26 - Updated two Reunion plans with more details. Link.
4 - Moved a dozen or so Guest Book entries - from those serving in ALL 5 decades - to the GB Archives. Link.
4 - Added one very interesting Special search, in the Find Buddies section, with a photograph. Link.

February 2004
20 - Added three new Found Buddies - You'll be amazed at the lucky date of TWO reports. Link.
16 - Added a new Reunion plan. Link.
16 - Added one new obituary. Link.
14 - Moved 20 new entries posted in 2004 - from those serving in ALL 5 decades - to the GB Archives. Link.

January 2004
31 - Added a new reunion, planned. Link.
21 - Removed insignificant detailed data from What's New Archive.
16- Revised Find People section internally - technical changes to folder/file layout. Updated with latest entries. Link.
7 - All links on every page of the links section checked, corrected or removed if failing. Link.
5 - Added new memory of ghosts. Link.
5 - Added new Special Search entry. Link.

December 2003
3 - Added a dozen pictures, including a spectacular sunset at Bawdsey Quay, and hundreds of words of memories to the Tony Maddox page. Although these are mainly personal memories, I'm sure they are going to awaken your own, if you were in England in the 1970s, when BROWN was THE colour in England! Link.
6 - Moved some more Guest Book entries from 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. Link.
6 - Posted an email praising the site and mentioning another 'success' for connecting buddies. Link.
6 - Added a memory, with photo, to Memories 2003. Link.
9 - Added further understandably anonymous details regarding Building 560. Link.
9 - Amended 'recent picture' of David Strieter, with President Bush. Link.
12 - Re-configured the page layout and font colours, changed button navigation to text navigation.
18 - Every decade represented in recent transfers from the Guest Book to the Find Buddies section. Link.
19 - Moved several miscellaneous items to the History section, and renamed it NEWS and HISTORY. Link.
24 - REDESIGNED THE FIND PEOPLE SECTION. Each 'decade' page was becoming too large to edit or search conveniently. I have separated each of the "decades of service" into a year for each of the years the messages were left on the site - except that everything on or before 2000 is on one page. First, look in the FIND pages to search by service decade, and then by year the message was left. You won't know that, of course, but it allows you to work through the pages systematically, and to avoid having to re-visit past pages because they will not be added to. Link.
30 - Added four new pictures of Building 661 to Dick Shively's K-9 page. Link.

November 2003
11 - Posted the initial 81st FWA 2004 reunion notice. Link.
12 - Completed the updates to James Boudreaux's return trip photo page. Link.
14 - Transferred about 40 Guest Book entries to the various Find Buddies pages. Link.
15 - More Memories - at last, I've added some contributed in 2003. Link.
15 - More pictures on Dick Shively's page. Link.
15 - Additions to the FOUND people in 2003. Link.
19 - Added "Military Pals" to the People page of the Links section. Link.
23 - Transferred a few more Guest Book entries, including one pre-1950s to the Find Buddies pages. Link.
25 - Special report on the presentation of a plaque from 81st FWA to Iken Church. Link.
26 - Updated the Museum Plans page. Link.
27 - Updated the Special Report on the Iken church presentation, including a short VIDEO. Link.

October 2003
1 - New Twin Bases link. Link.
1 - New 'reunion held' report from "Bentwaters Buds" - Link.
22 - New 'success' at finding an old comrade recorded. Link.
22 - Fascinating update on the Berta/Wilson tragedy by someone VERY closely involved.
26 - Added a new page for the Return Trip of James (Jim) Boudreaux, with Alec Trumpeter and Dick Newson. Link.

September 2003
23rd - Moved all Guest Book Archive entries from the "month" pages, into the appropriate decade of the "Find People" pages of the contributor. Link.
12th - Added a new photo-search, by Paul Kurzinski in the 1960s.
12th - Added a new photo-search, by Tom Stewart, in the 1950s.
12th - Added captions to Bldg 560 from someone who worked in there. Link
11th - Corrected the missing links from thumbnails to larger images on bldg 560 page. Link.
10th - New page for Building 560, within the WSA. Link.

August 2003
20 - New set of patches from Jonathan Burchard. Link.
20 - A whole new page including interior pictures of the Martlesham Heath Autovon. Link.
20 - Two more people found friends through this site - one waited 4 years, another 32 years! Link.
17 - Yet another spectacular, recent, aerial photograph of RAF Bentwaters. Link.
11 - Added another Forum magazine cover to the Memorabilia page. Link.
11 - Reporting another success for the site, despite a long wait, it seems worth it! Link.

July 2003
- Changed the link on the home page, for US Fallen in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Link.
- Added link to UK Warbirds. Link.
- Added link to F4-Phantom site, which includes BENTWATERS HISTORY by Justyn Keeble - the man who first introducted me to RAF Bentwaters, and arranged my first visit onto the base, in 1997. Link.
- Added obituary notice for Sq. Ldr. "Sid" Scorer. Link.
- Added a comment about 'hot row' to the WSA picture page. Link.
- Added two great aerial shots of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. Link.

June 2003
- The Guest Book is now "moderated" to avoid publishing advertising or potentially offensive material. .

May 2003

April 2003

March 2003

February 2003
- Minor revision to navigation - Home, etc. replaced text with button
- Poll on war with Iraq closed - results here.

January 2003
- Minor change to the colours of the page headings, to make navigation text stand out more clearly.
- Following audience feedback, the graphics indicating HOME, WHAT'S NEW, SITE SEARCH, and INFO/HELP have been replaced with text links. People were not realising the purpose of the buttons. Text links should avoid misunderstanding, and avoid people missing some of the site's best features.
- Added Guest Book to the revised text links and moved Guest Book to a page of its own.
- Removed the image background. Modified the masthead graphic, incorporating an update of the old 'handshake' image, familiar to those who have been visiting the site for a few years.
- Moved some links off the Home Page to the Links section as Special Links.
- Revised the page footer to incorporate latest revision number Rev.3.01a - if that does not appear in the footer, you need to re-load/refresh the page.
- Moved some pictures from Chuck Dalldorf's page to Bentwaters section and re-titled pages in the Bentwaters index making it easier to find pictures. Added new information to "black room" pictures.
- Removed 2002 "What's New" entries to the newly created What's New Archive.
- Because of technical changes, you might experience "Page not found" errors for old pages that have changed their name or location in the site's file structure. YOU WILL NEED TO RE-LOAD/REFRESH the page that LINKED TO THE OLD PAGE, to pick up the updated links.
- Re-named page "Forum Covers" to "Memorabilia" and added image of 1952 91st FIS Christmas card.
- Date ranges now precede all "What's New" entries.

December 2002
Minor revisions to all sub-navigation text.
Moved 2002's Guest Book entries to a new page, Guest Book Archive, which will enable you to us the Site Search for finding names. Entries in the Guest Book are external to the site and are not searchable.

November 2002
The artist of the breezeway painting has found this web site!
Put in graphics for links to Home page, Site Search, Site Info and What's New
Reintstated the News Archive in the History section
Reinstated Mike Paris's Wheelus pictures that went missing during 'pruning'
Reinstated pages that went missing during re-design; 2 from Woodbridge, 1 from Bentwaters
Moved the 2002 Hangar Dance report to the Reunions section
20 November - MAJOR RE-DESIGN, including re-naming of many files and images. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes but I hope you find navigation has improved.
Reinstated some old Shepherd's Grove pictures that went missing
Removed all "Find Buddies" entries where the email address failed
Links section - separate page for Museums

October 2002
Re-instated the Tobacco Housing page.
Removed the email from Kitchen Table Gang but added a link to their site.
Minor revision to page layout and navigation, throughout the site
Removed links to Twin Bases email group due to lack of sign-ups

I will delete ALL contributors searches, etc., where their email address no longer works.

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