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20-02-06, 05:25

sapper740

Derek Heuring

Join Date: Oct 2004

Location: Corinth, Texas

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Re: Barrage Balloon Tender

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Originally posted by cliff
found this while browsing the AWM last night. Not sure if they were RAF vehicles though.

Taken in Plymouth England

cheers
Cliff

Those vehicles were called Winch Lorries and they were operated by WAAFS so they must be RAF. It took a crew of 16 WAAFs to man?handle each barrage balloon. Here's a pic of some WAAFs in a balloon hangar with a winch lorry in the background

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