Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial
Wartime bomber airfield museum with a rebuilt Halifax, original control tower and Allied memorial.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Yorkshire Air Museum near York stands you beside its rebuilt Halifax bomber and asks where its pieces came from. It travels from a January morning in nineteen forty-five at Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, to a decade of volunteer labour at the old Elvington bomber airfield. Along the way you meet the French crews who once flew from this field. Best heard in the main hangar, beneath the bomber's nose.
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