Wattisham

Wattisham, Suffolk

Wattisham

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Wattisham Station Heritage Museum

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Wattisham Airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Wall Protected Fighter Dispersal

AIRFIELD SITE : Crash Gate 2

AIRFIELD SITE : Crash Gate 3

AIRFIELD SITE : Crash Gate 4

AIRFIELD SITE : Fighter Command Type Central Armoury

AIRFIELD SITE : Fuel Store

AIRFIELD SITE : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

AIRFIELD SITE : Live Missile Silo

Believed to have been built in the 1980's during the cold war expansion for the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom aircraft. These photos show the RAF Wattisham live missile protected building, the concrete and grass situated over the hollow tunnel gives cover and protection for any missile housed inside it. Phantoms from 56 Sqn and 74 Sqn would stop nearby to be armed with live ordnance during live practice sorties.

AIRFIELD SITE : Petrol Tanker Shed

AIRFIELD SITE : Royal Air Force Search & Rescue Hangar

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 05/23

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 16/34

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 23 Approach Lights

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways

AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 Pillbox

LOCATED AT : 52.132535, 0.955900
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AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 Pillbox

LOCATED AT : 52.127801, 0.944405
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AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02

AIRFIELD SITE : Water Tower & Works Services Buildings

AIRFIELD SITE : Yarnold Sangar Pillbox 01

AIRFIELD SITE : Yarnold Sangar Pillbox 02

ANGLIA RADAR SITE : Air Traffic Control Centre

ANGLIA RADAR SITE : Main Entrance

ANGLIA RADAR SITE : Picket Post

ANGLIA RADAR SITE : Standby Generator House

ANGLIA RADAR SITE : Yarnold Sangar Pillbox

BUILDING 102 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 103 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 104 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 105 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 111 : Machine Gun Range (25 Yard)

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BUILDING 112 : Gas Chamber & Practice Bomb Store

BUILDING 113 : Battery Charging Room

BUILDING 118 : Link Trainer Building

BUILDING 121 : Parachute Store

BUILDING 125 : Main Workshops

BUILDING 127 : Central Heating Station

BUILDING 131 : Armoury & Photographic Section

BUILDING 136 : Main Stores

BUILDING 140 : Station Headquarters

BUILDING 141 : Speech Broadcasting Building

BUILDING 143 : Unknown

BUILDING 144 : Station Chapel

This building is now in use as The Wattisham Airfield Museum

BUILDING 150 : Unknown

BUILDING 154 : Station Sick Quarters

BUILDING 156 : Ambulance Garage & Mortuary

BUILDING 159 : Field Force Mechanical Transport Shed

BUILDING 166 : Articulated Vehicle Shed

BUILDING 168 : Unknown

BUILDING 169 : Lubricant & Inflammables Store

BUILDING 170 : Unknown

BUILDING 172 : Standby Set House

BUILDING 177 : Crew Rest, Locker & Drying Room

BUILDING 184 : Ready Use Pyrotechnic Store

BUILDING 499 : Unknown

BUILDING 501 : Accommodation Block

BUILDING 502 : Administration Block & Crew Room

I have been advised by Clive S that Building 502 was used by No.1 Air Control Centre (ACC), the first image was the Administration Block/Station Headquarters and the second photo shows the Crew Room and Training Section for the Air Electronics System Operator's (AESOP).

BUILDING 514 : Unknown

BUILDING 515 : Unknown

BUILDING 518 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

BUILDING 566 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

BUILDING 601 : Unknown

BUILDING 604 : Unknown

BUILDING 605 : Unknown

BUILDING 627 : Unknown

BUILDING 631 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 25

BUILDING 632 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

BUILDING 702 : Control Tower

BUILDING 705 : Unknown

COMMUNAL SITE : Gymnasium & Chancel

COMMUNAL SITE : Officers Mess & Extensions

COMMUNAL SITE : Sergeants Mess & Extensions

COMMUNAL SITE : Unknown

GATE GUARDS

GATE GUARD : Aerospatiale SA.341 Gazelle AH.1 (XX380)

GATE GUARD : English Electric Lightning F.1A (XM192)

GATE GUARD : Westland Scout AH.1 (XT617)

MEMORIALS AT WATTISHAM

MEMORIAL SITE : 479th Fighter Group Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : 479th Fighter Group Squadrons Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : Captain Earl Taylor Memorial Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Nicholas

Buried and Remembered in this Churchyard are:
Sergeant James Albert Poulding (Royal Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : Great Bricett Village Sign

MEMORIAL SITE : Lest We Forget Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : Lightning Tail Fin

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Wattisham Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : The Parish Church of St Catherine

The Parish Church of St Catherine, Ringshall

MEMORIAL SITE : The Parish Church of St Catherine Churchyard

Buried and Remembered in this Churchyard are:
Flying Officer David G Adam (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Sidney Allen (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Robert H T Baker (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class John Herbert Betts (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Bray (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Duncan Broadley (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman Anthony Arthur Bushell (Royal Air Force)
Chief Technician William Arthur Rosier Davis (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Alvan Davison (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Peter J Derwin (Royal Air Force)
Corporal Christopher F W Doyle (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Graham John England (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant R A Foulks (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Alan Garside (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Bernard Charles Gilmore (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer Grant Russell Graves (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant J L Hatch (Royal Air Force)
Sally Lindsay Higgins
Sergeant John Weir Humphrey (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Derek R Law (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman Ashley Lawrence Lawford (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant David Kilgour Lloyd (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flying Officer Basil George Mace (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Henry Martin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Oscar Richard Munro (Royal Air Force)
Staff Sergeant Anthony Paul Nichols (Army Air Corps)
Flight Lieutenant Andrew Alexander Orr (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Thomas Rice (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant David Richardson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Chief Technician John Waite (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman William Charles Welsh (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Kenneth Whitfield (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Stanley W Wood (Royal Air Force)