One of the hundreds of airfields set up by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during WWII, RAF Tempsford was established in 1940. Placed between an old Roman road and the railway to Peterborough, it was an unique facility: Named Gibraltar Farm and designed to resemble a working farm, it was set up to help facilitate infiltrations by Allied special agents into Nazi-occupied Europe. From RAF Tempsford, aircraft flew across the Channel to drop supplies to resistance movements, while Westland Lysander planes (you can see an example at the nearby Shuttleworth Collection) dropped…
