I came across a news article about RAF Upwood, the former wartime airbase near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire). Josef Jakobs landed southeast of Ramsey near both RAF Upwood and RAF Warboys. Let’s see how the article did in terms of historical accuracy. I have added italicized comments in square brackets where needed. The derelict RAF […]
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A few months ago, I received an email from Richard S. who said that, in 1941, his grandfather had given German spy Josef Jakobs his “last ride of freedom” on his milk float from Dove House Farm to the Ramsey Police Station. I suspected that Richard might be the grandson of Harry Godfrey as I
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Several years ago, I wrote a blog post about two officers from the Ramsey Home Guard, Captain William Henry Newton and Lieutenant John Curedale. Both officers were called upon to apprehend German spy Josef Jakobs who had landed by parachute on the evening on 31 January 1941. Lying in a potato field all night, just
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I came across a few interesting sites that document the abandoned RAF Upwood base near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. German spy, Josef Jakobs, landed near Ramsey on January 31, 1941 and MI5 speculated at the time that he might have been sent to snoop around the airbase. While Josef had a Shell Touring Map of England in
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When German spy Josef Jakobs parachuted into a potato filed on Dovehouse Farm the night of January 31, 1941, he had a Shell Touring Map in his possession. The map was a fold-out variety and relatively small-scale. Not the best map for a would-be spy! When MI5 examined the map, they noticed that a triangle
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RAF Bases near Ramsey When Josef landed near the village of Ramsey on the evening of January 31, 1941, he had a map in his possession which caused quite a stir with the local authorities. A pencilled circle and a cross marked the locations of two Royal Air Force Bases. The cross marked RAF Upwood
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