BBC

Chicksands: US airman sad over UK base closure

A former US airman has said he is sad about the closure of the UK military base where he found lifelong love. John Nichols was stationed at RAF Chicksands, Bedfordshire, between 1958 and 1960. The ...
BBC

"JOLLY GOOD WORK, RATCLIFFE" (My War as a RAF Listener at Chicksands Priory)

I enlisted with the Royal Air Force as a WAAF on the 15th November, 1941 and was demobilised exactly 4 years later on the 15th November, 1945. I served as a "listener" at RAF Chicksands but could not ...
The Intercept

InSIDer’s View of History: ‘Soviet Rocket’ Strikes Chicksands

Author shares an anecdote about a fake Soviet rocket that lieutenants made as a prank in 1957 during the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to launch an ICBM. DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE ...
The Baltimore Sun

PARKER PROMOTED

Marvin V. Parker has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rankof senior airman. He is a vehicle operator and dispatcher at RAF Chicksands, England. Parker graduated from Annapolis High School in ...