Talk:RAF Weston-on-the-Green

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Roy Gandy's wartime recollections of Weston-on-The-Green

At the end of May 1940 a small party of us based at RAF Bicester were sent to Weston on the Green. There were about 30 of us headed by the unlikely combination of a Squadron Leader (ex WW1) and two corporals. Our mission was to contain any German parachute landing within the airfield until Army reinforcements could arrive. We opened up the original brick huts which had been closed for many years, got rid of the mice, spiders webs and dust and made them habitable, We were armed with 10 Lee Enfield 303s and a Lewis gun. We dug gun pits at corners of the airfield to where we had to scramble on our Bedford truck in the event of an enemy landing. At night, oddly enough, we had to put out flares to aid the emergency landing of any of our aircraft in difficulty. In the event the invasion didn't happen and the glorious summer of 1940 was spent in not doing very much. Cooking arrangements were difficult and as food rationing had started we exchanged our unlimited supplies of sugar, butter, bacon and tea with the villagers who gave us in exchange produce from their gardens such as spring onions, radishes, lettuce erc which made a welcome addition to our diet. I don't know how many of the party of 30 odd are still alive. As I am 91 I thought this bit of history might bring back memories to those who are still around.

Roy Gandy ex 1151158 RAF

Moved from article as it is unreferenced and original research. MilborneOne (talk) 10:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ICAO Code

The ICAO code for Weston is NOT "WOTG". The ICAO prefix "W" relates to the Borneo/Indonesia area of the world.

https://hycregatta.org/nl/luchthavencodes/

The code for Weston (if one exists at all) must start with "EG". 80.195.88.242 (talk) 08:25, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The edit that added the code appears to have been based on this from the MoD.Nigel Ish (talk) 09:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's just an abbreviation. It is fundamentally NOT an ICAO code. 80.195.88.242 (talk) 09:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]