ROC

Raid Spotters

Raid Spotters

Raid Spotters … If a single Luftwaffe bomber flew across the U.K. the air raid siren would sound under its flight path, with a safety margin either side, with time before or after it had passed over allowing people to safely get into the air raid shelters and later to get out and back to […]

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Darky

Darky

‘Darky’ … When I joined the R.O.C. post at Loddon, sometimes at meetings wartime members would recall some of their wartime roles when Loddon was ‘Tare Three’ of 16 Group Norwich.  It was the only ‘Darky’ post in the group. Darky equipment included two poles 100 foot apart with the post in the middle, with

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ROC Day @ NASAM – Sunday 22 Sep 2019

ROC Day @ NASAM … The weather was fine for the start of the ROC Day at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum.  Members of the Royal Observer Corps manned stalls, and it was a very successful day despite the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Hurricane not showing.  It seems that the aircraft had

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