Exercise Ardent

Title

Exercise Ardent
RAF North Luffenham

Description

Vertical aerial photograph with caption '3016 541/1476 11 Oct 52 36"// EX. ARDENT 1200 PR/1/11 30000' F/S Walker Secret'.

RAF North Luffenham officers mess is bottom left. Shows small village surrounded by enclosed fields. In the bottom left hand corner there are three substantial buildings, symmetrically arranged around a courtyard, with oval track behind. The bottom right hand corner shows a stream. In the centre of the picture, there is a group of buildings, set out in an "H" design. The remaining area shows enclosed fields, some with isolated buildings.

Date

1952-10-11

Temporal Coverage

Language

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Conforms To

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

PWillettS19020052

Collection

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Exercise Ardent,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/50654.