The Boswells in Europe

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VE Day Air show, Imperial War Museum, Duxford

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The American Air Museum was open during the airshow to everyone. It was built as a memorial to the 30,000 Americans who died during WWII flying from England.

In the museum was a wide range of aircraft from WWI, through WWII, Vietnam and on through to the modern era.

 

There was more to the museum than Aircraft. Left is a Soviet SA2 Surface to Air Missile.

This is a section of a barrel from a super gun that was designed by Gerald Bull (an artillery genius). Unfortunately his genius found its way to Saddam in Iraq and led to his eventual assassination by Israeli Secret Services.

This section was confiscated by HM Customs and was marked as part of consignment of machinery supposedly intended to be used in the oil industry by Iraq. The rest of the weapon (those bits that had already been delivered and assembled) were destroyed by the UN after the first Gulf war.