Video - RAF Church Fenton | Leeds | March 2017
- By 8Film
RAF Church Fenton was a very creepy place definalty up there for me.
The minute you walk in its as if eyes are watching you from every window and when i was there you could hear faint test gun fire which made it even more creepy.
Opened in 1937, it saw the peak of its activity during the years of the Second World War, when it served within the defence network of fighter bases of the RAF providing protection for the Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Humberside industrial regions.
During September 1940 it became home to the first RAF "Eagle squadron" of American volunteers being No. 71 Squadron RAF initially with the Brewster Buffalo I for one month before changing to the Hawker Hurricane I. The airfield was also home to both the first all-Canadian and all-Polish squadrons, with No. 242 Squadron RAF for the Canadians and No. 306 Squadron RAF for the Polish