Nov 11, 2024
During WW II Scotland’s coast was defended from attacks from the air and sea. Pill boxes, lines of concrete tank cubes and anti-glider posts were part of the coastal crust to prevent beach landings of planes and vessels with tanks. The famous Churchill Barriers...
Oct 21, 2019
Condition survey, photography, interpretation RAF Wig Bay on the sheltered shores of Loch Ryan was developed as a specialist Flying Boat Base in World War 2 where these enormous machines were maintained by a specialist workforce. During the 1950’s the base...
Apr 17, 2015
The RAF Wig Bay ShoreDIG got underway in March with the survey of the remains of the flying boat base. Set up in 1942, this was Britain’s main wartime base for the maintenance of flying boats. It specialised in converting American-built Catalinas to RAF...
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