R.A.F. Station Harrowbeer - Part 2 By Michael Hayes

MICHAEL HAYES: Owner of RAF Harrowbeer Archives, Educational and Heritage Centre incorporating Knightstone Tearooms together with his wife Lucy. They researched the airfield and collated the ever growing archives.

TALK: R.A.F. Station Harrowbeer was a Second World War Aerodrome that was built on a portion of Roborough Down, Yelverton and became operational on the 15th August 1941.

It was placed on “Care and Maintenance” on 31st July 1945 and finally closed its doors and handed back to the original owners in 1962.

In this presentation we hear about what happened after the Dieppe Raid “Operation Jubilee” in August 1942 and R.A.F. Harrowbeer’s part in D-Day.