RAF Duxford’s Battle of Britain operations are brought to life
through the power of Twitter
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, ImperialWar Museum
Duxford is launching a new Twitter campaign which will enable tweeters to experience RAF
Duxford’s Battle of Britain operations as they happened.
Using the operational record books of RAF Duxford and No.19 Squadron as source
information, IWM Duxford will tweet the fighter station’s Battle of Britain activities, at the
exact date and time that they occurred, from April to October 1940.
This exciting new campaign will give a direct insight into Battle of Britain history, and will
show how the campaign built in momentum throughout 1940.
The operational record books are reproduced exactly as they were written during those dark
days of 1940, bringing the lost voices of RAF Duxford serving personnel vividly to life in this
special anniversary year.
The tweets will show life at RAF Duxford from its daily routines to the fascinating postcombat
reports filed with increasing regularity as the Battle of Britain intensified.
The operational record books show, in real time, the milestone events that took place at RAF
Duxford, including patrols over Dunkirk, the failure of the cannon-fire Spitfires, the arrival of
Czech pilots to form 310 Squadron and the formation of the Duxford ‘Big Wing’.
It describes in detail the sorties carried out by No.19 Squadron and gives tweeters a vivid
insight into the pilots’ experiences during the frenetic and adrenalin-fuelled dogfights in the
skies over Duxford.
The operational record books also give details regarding the Battle of Britain careers of some
of RAF Duxford’s most famous fighter pilots including Douglas Bader, Brian Lane, George
‘Grumpy’ Unwin, Gordon Sinclair, Wallace Cunningham and Frank Brinsden.
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to experience Battle of Britain events as they happened,
told in the voices of the RAF Duxford personnel who lived through this iconic aerial conflict.
