Countless hours of effort, lots of research and more than a little love for the subject bore fruit on July 27, 2002 when the 306th Bombardment Group Museum was opened at the former Thurleigh airfield, north of Bedford. Guest of honour on that day was Dr Jonathan Palmer of Bedford Autodrome who had provided the museum with one of the few surviving wartime buildings on the site. Jonathan was on hand again at another ceremony at the museum on May 27 this year. Introducing these proceedings, he said that the Autodrome was: "honoured to be the custodian of such a great treasure." Many people work behind the scenes at the 306th, but it owes its existence to an extraordinary couple with the kind of vigour that makes most around them gape: museum founders and curators Daphne and Ralph Franklin.
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