What wonderful RAF base. Served here from 1962-65 and enjoyed every moment of my time there. The German people I found to be very friendly and enjoyed touring as much of Germany as possible. I visited the base again in 2012 and was very upset with the decline of the base. Thank You.

My First tour abroad in the RAF was at Gutersloh 1980-83 worked on Harriers in HSF fond memories of the local people and the base, My wife worked in the Mally club and NAAFI. Sad to see so dilapidated.

My first tour of RAF Germany was RAF Laarbruch 79-82: 1 Sqn RAF Regiment. My second tour was RAF Gutersloh 1984 - 1987: 33 Wing, RAF Regiment. I was very lucky to have two tours of RAF Germany within such a small time frame. Enjoyed both for different reasons.

I used to live in Mansergh. I remember going here everyday to see my dad. Good times

I had my most enjoyable flying tour with 230 Sqn 87 - 90, flying the Puma from Gutersloh, very fond memories

Dad was based with the REME at Sennelager/Paderborn in the 60's. We flew in and out of Gutersloh from the UK

I lived on this camp for 4 years 1997- 2001 6 supply regt r.l.c best time of my life and a great posting... its so sad it's all gone now😥

I've never served there but passed through many times. I used to take my kids to watch the lightnings take off. Wonderful.

Stationed at Gutersloh from feb 1967 until feb 1970. Squadrons based there in my time were 2 and 4 sqn Hunter FR10s; 19 and 92 sqn Lightning 2s and 2As and 18 sqn Wessexs. Very good camp. Enjoyed my time there.

Landed there in April 1974 having flown out from Brize Norton. Met my driver who took me to Gutersloh railway station for onward travel to Hameln.

My brother was stationed here for a while. He still serves in the RAF. He always spoke well of Gutersloh.

I used to fly into RAF Gütersloh as a kid to visit my uncle in Herford, I never thought id get posted there to 1GS Regt, 2 Sqn from 96-2000, best times ever, awesome friends for life!

We used to take indulgence flights from here in the 80s. We would travel from West Berlin by train.

Was there at the end in 2016 was sad to see it closed along with the rest of BAOR as we had moved to Bielefeld in 2013 following the closure of JHQ such a shame

18 years in Germany, went through Gutersloh many times on deployments out of BFG. Remember the mounted frames, of all the then (80's) Army cap badges, never thought I would meet the RAF Officer, who put them together (He was retired and I was seeing his daughter, (long story). Then back in 94? attached to 1 AAC, from a 3 year posting in Hildesheim, was posted there for a further year. Good times. Sad to see it all go.

I flew in with the RAMC in the VC10. It seemed a huge airfield

I spent 3 years of my life here in 2 Logistic Support Regiment. Very strange to see it now as a tourist attraction.

This brings back memories. I was there 86-89. So many happy memories of the place and the people (and Germany and Germans, both local and distant).

I never thought that I would see the inside of that hanger again. I was on 18 Squadron in the late 80s. I left just before the first gulf war.

Very sad to see the Officers' Mess in such a bad state. There's much history there (both RAF and Luftwaffe); it really should be a protected building imo. For those who've not been, there's a keller bar with cartoons painted on the walls by Luftwaffe pilots and a small room at the top of the tower (Göring's Room) which used to contain photos and souvenirs from the Luftwaffe days. It has an unusual feature. The large central beam in the low ceiling is actually in two parts, divided in the middle and invisibly hinged at the ends where it meets the walls. The central join is concealed by an iron light fitting. There is a metal ring hidden under a hinged flap in the wooden floor. This is connected by cables routed under the floor and behind the walls and ceiling to a mechanism which, when the ring is pulled, allows the two halves of the beam to drop down about 25cm (from memory) with a loud 'clunk'. Built presumably by the German officers, it was an elaborate response to Göring's habit of telling war stories to his junior pilots and ending with the phrase 'If this is not true, may this beam above our heads bend', or words to that effect. One can only imagine the reaction when this was used for the fist time! It was still working flawlessly in the early 80s when I was stationed there.

I was there during 1954,was in transit from RAF Celle to RAF Laarbruch.

I flew into gutersloh when I was in the infantry regiment going to padderbourne

I loved going to Guterslogh because it meant I was catching a plane home on leave.

I spent many a summer evening as a Cub Scout on the fields next to the runway watching hunters vampire, lightning and argosy flying in and out my father was based here as a flight sarge during 1966

I was based at RAF Laarbruch, which was on the Dutch border in Westphalia in 1963. It was Canberra Bombers then, two squadrons.

I came here for a weeks stay while it was operational when the British Army had it, was fantastic

4 sqd Harriers at Gütersloh and 17F at Brüggen, best tours I had in the RAF! Been to see them recently and I found it really errie, what was a bustling RAF base with hundreds of guy and girls and jets ROARING around, taking off and landing to this empty desolate airfield, was a sad experience and bought a few things home to me.....

I used to fly in and out of BAOR here.

You should have stayed here in Germany. I had a lot of BAOR Friends in the Detmold Area where I comme from. They are deeply missed because they became part of my live .

Herman Goring had a room there in the officers mess, where the roof would come down, He used to say to new officers, if we are going to lose the war the roof will fall on us, and then make the roof come down, also had an enormous collection of knives, of his

Best STATION not base is BRACHT where they kept all the bombs from the wars. Great station to visit.

Very sad to see this, I was there in the 80's and had some memorable times there. Now I am trying to remember the name of a good friend at the time, a Major Lance whose wife Ginney used to do taxidermy as a hobby, he had a Labrador dog called Nimrod and I seem to remember being out on a shoot with some local German dignitaries when his car was accidentally shot, we thought the gentleman mistook it for a cow maybe...!!! Fun times, I wish I could remember more of it!

Dad was based there when I was born in 1966.

RAFG to RAFA for a holiday in Ireland, with loss of LOA but 50p a week "danger money." Oh the memories!

1:41 the other one is preserved at Gilze-Rijen Air Base, RNLAF

Who was the narrator? He sounds familiar, *almost* like Michael Burke.

I served at RAF Gutersloh 1962-63 in the Signals Section housed in the Station Administrative block and also in the Air Traffic Signals Office house in the Control Tower. At that time we flew Hunters and Westland Helicopters. Gutersloh was a nice, friendly town, and I recall there was a small replica Berlin Wall construction just in front of the railway station - to remind the townsfolk of how Berlin was divided by the communist regime of East Germany. Thankfully the Berlin wall came down in 1989 and I expect the Gutersloh memorial was also taken down.

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It’s a shame it’s not being used anymore.

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Good times there 10 years from 2001 till 2011 why is the tour not showing them the BOP and where the pizza man was also the Red Shed !? Great times

Was their 1977 building a road with 45 Support Sqn got sent back to our camp a few day before the Queen came to review the troops for the silver jubilee

Why?

Strange that people are paying to visit it. They used to pay me to walk around it with a guard dog. I got there first in Feb 96, when it was still full of life and soldiers and was still visiting it right to the end, it was heart breaking to see it become a ghost town. I still drive past from time to time and saddens me each time I do. So many memories.

Sad to see how PRB has ended up ,

Places like this should be protected and maintained as museums. The worst think to do is build over them you never know when history will repeat it's self and you may need them again. Especially with Putin and his ambitions.

I flew in there a few times

Brings back some great memories for me! What a great base it used to be - full in history. Served there 1982-84 and used to deploy from there regularly with the Harriers, and Güt was a great friendly town as well, lovely friendly people I met there. Beilafeld, Osnabrück, great for nights out! Shame, the base looks like an A- bomb hit it now, very sad!

Lived here as a child

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why they left?who is going to keep an eye for them now?

Pffft..... Air Force bases?! go to a real base! FALLINGBOSTEL!! 👌🏼

Remember Harriers doing circuts. And using the mess. Great breakfast! And flew in a Chinook from there over the Dambuster Mohne dam with the ramp down.

All military bases are out of bounds to non-military citizens and out of bounds to military personnel from potential enemies.

Strange, the British forces never used Hawk misilles

Next lads holiday: Guttersloh

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ive to been to both

Message for Paul Curzon 18sqn ask him if he can remember Robert (Bill) Wealleans worked on Wessex Airframes 69/72 at BFPO47. Cheers Dave Wealleans.

Rather telling that the only aeroplane remaining that looks in any kind of reasonable shape is the Sukhoi .... Do svidaniya Comrades.

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i was born here in 1991 lol

The Vampire nose/cockpit is based on that of the Mosquito, which is the reason behind the wooden construction, not due to shortages post war. D

We should bring our troops back to the U.K or to our worldwide bases.

This place was used as a torture camp for NKVD officers captured by the British during the Cold War after Bad Nenndorf was closed down. Not a lot of Brits want to speak or admit to it.

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