The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Welcome along Heimdall - enjoy the Forum

I live on the far North Coast of NSW in Australia. A retired school teacher. I did serve 9 years as a Signalman in the Royal Australian Navy - I am hoping you won't hold that against me.
I am interested in tracking the footsteps my father made as he made his way across parts of Europe during WWII. As a Flt Sgt in the Servicing Commandos he worked at advanced airfields. I would like to know a bit about these airfields. Looking at my father's service records and other sources he appeared to have spent some time at the following airfields.
OPERATION TORCH
Maison Blance and Blida in Algeria
Souk el Arba and Ghardimaou in Tunisia

OPERATION HUSKY
Cosimo in Sicily

OPERATION AVALANCHE
Montalbano, Barlella and Bari in Italy
Borgo, Alto and Calvi in Corsica

OPERATION DRAGOON
Marignane in France

After his unit disbanded late 1944 he was transferred to HQ(U) 231 wing and sent to Tortorello near Foggia In Italy.

Welcome to the forum, TonyS , all accepted on here no worries.

Welcome to the forum, Heimdall , as you've probably noticed there's a few air traffic types on here. Look forward to your input.

Welcome to the forum, cj530

Welcome to the forum Tony.

This memorial plaque to Unit 3201 is in the woods near Desborough.

Where abouts is the plaque located Chris?

It's roughly here in Stoke Wood opposite Desborough Airfield Rich.

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I can show you next time your over this way.

The wood is has many memorials Dietmar can tell you more about the place.

Chris

Chris

Thats a big area to look at!

Look forward to having a look around the wood next time I'm over

Cheers

Rich

I sent an email to the Woodland Trust a coule of weeks ago regarding the plaque. I received an automated reply saying they would get back to me. Apparently they are pretty busy with some tree dieback disease at the moment.

Cheers
Tony