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Chelveston Airbase - A A F 105

Outside the Air Ministry Works Department - Resident Engineer's base
One of the Wykes sisters The other sister in one of the Jeeps
These two pictures are from 1944, and believed to be the Wykes sisters.

Dances were held at the American airbases and the local girls were invited - this one comes from nearby Podington A A F 109
A dance ticket
A dance reservation card kept with this ticket declares
"An Evening's Fun with the 1755th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Co. Avn." The card lists the staff:-
Squadron Staff
Committee
Guests
Capt M A Armstrong

1st Lt. H W Shelp

1st Lt. G H Orloff

1st Lt. R E O'Connor

1st Lt. C R Southern

1st Sgt. R J Beauchemin

T/Sgt. W B Belekewicz

S/Sgt. H P Bartkowski

Sgt. M De Santis

Pfc. M. Flaherty

Col. J W Wilson

Lt-Col. R P Riordan

Maj. W V Croak

Capt. M W Stevenson

Dance Ticket from 1945

Rushden Echo & Argus, 15the June 1945

U.S. Airmen Won 1,550 Local Brides
Cupid has been working overtime with the Americans in this district. The winning ways of the Air Personnel at eight of our U.S. Aerodromes have won them no fewer than 1,550 English brides. The Anglo-American marriage stakes table is as follows:

Molesworth 400
Polebrook 250
Podington 205
Chelveston 175
Grafton Underwood 155
Thurleigh 148
Harrington 117
Benefield 100

Four medics lived at Wheels Den. They were: George Teague, Ray Widstrom, Tom Jones and one other. The sickbay at the base, a brick building on the road to Caldecot, had 22 beds, was 24 feet by 64 feet, with asbestos roof, and was located outside the airfield proper.
This building was called Wheels Den by the four men who lived there.
The barbers shop for the USAF men opened from 08.00hours till 1900.
Les Collins with his taxi
Les Collins from Rushden, often visited the base at Chelveston with his taxi in the late 1950s


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