Secrets about wartime activity at RAF Tempsford remained as such until 1998, when people were finally able to learn about the role it played. RAF Tempsford was built on a site near the A1 as a ...

A new book chronicles how the RAF pilot fled across France, Switzerland and Spain after his Halifax bomber crashed ...

“Frank was based at RAF Tempsford when he was shot down. On August 14,1943, Frank piloted a Halifax bomber from this secret SOE airbase on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Piment ...

It was on one of these mission that Frank's plane took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE "Special Duties" airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed ...

Tempsford is proud of its history. From the Battle of Tempsford in 917 when Edward the Elder saw off the Danes, to RAF Tempsford being used as a staging post for secret airborne missions into ...

On the night of 22nd July, 1943 Stan joined the crew of Halifax DK119, 161 squadron and took off from RAF Tempsford in Bedfordshire on a mission to drop desperately needed supplies to the French ...

Squadron leader James "Waggy" Wagland, who has died aged 91, was the senior navigator at RAF Tempsford, the home of the special duties squadrons flying clandestine operations for the Special ...

"We trained them well as our lives depended on it." Leonard, who was based at RAF Tempsford in Bedfordshire, added: "We always flew at night, picking out landmarks in the moonlight. Sometimes it ...