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- Station Logs from RAF Davidstow Moor in 1940s
- model room with 100s of aircraft and vehicles
- hospital room
- RAF Regiment and Royal Observer Corps displays
- details of aircraft and squadrons that flew from here
- numerous RAF artefacts and photos
of buildings and the personnel that were stationed here |
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The Officer’s Mess originally consisted of
this building and three Nissen huts which were removed when the
airfield closed. The building, which has five separate rooms, is
of solid masonry construction and so survived the ravages of time
and neglect. It has now been fully restored as a major display
area.
Although it is mainly devoted to the Royal Air
Force, there are other items on display relating to the USAAF 44th
& 93rd Bomb Groups (particularly the 68th
& 328th Bomb Sqdns) and 404 ‘Buffalo’ Sqdn
Royal Canadian Air Force which has many, many photographs.
Information and photographs are also displayed about Polish
aircrew, as they operated from here in 1943.
One of the rooms is used for a massive display
of models which will appeal to our younger visitors. Not only
model aircraft but also land vehicles, forts, landing craft, tanks
and many other subjects.
For those who enjoy looking at historical
documents a copy of the Station Log for RAF Davidstow Moor (and
also the Station Log for nearby RAF Cleave) are available in the
Reading Room.
Information is displayed on every squadron that
was here during WW2 together with details of the aircraft that
flew from here. On a more personal level there are photographs of
some of the many thousands of people who were stationed here
during the 1940s.
In other rooms the RAF Regiment is represented
along with the Royal Observer Corp and the Air Transport Auxiliary
(these were women who ferried aircraft from manufacturers or
maintenance depots to front-line stations).
An extensive range of artefacts, photographs
and other memorabilia are on display along the central corridor
and in the individual rooms. Of these one of the more unusual
items (both written and photographic) relates to a collection of
German aircraft that were flown around the country to different
airfields by the RAF.
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