RAF Dunkeswell: a tour of a WW2 airfield - Station Armoury (10)
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RAF Dunkeswell: a tour of a WW2 airfield - Station Armoury (10)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 7 May 2019
The Station Armoury was responsible for the secure storage of small arms (weapons and ammunition). The pre-flight loading of aircraft guns would begin here with armourers using special machines to fill ammunition belts. There was a colour coded system in place in order to obtain the correct mix of ammunition e.g. tracer (red), armour piercing (green), incendiaries (blue), and ball (purple). Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.861898
Longitude
-3.227309