This picture will remind everyone of the days when the RAF, and not the Army, were part of life in Abingdon.
More than 60,000 people attended an ‘At Home’ day in 1961 when airmen threw open the gates and invited everyone inside the base.
It was a special day marking the 21st anniversary of the Battle of Britain during the Second World War.
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The Oxford Mail reported: “All roads leading to the station were jammed for hours with queues of vehicles, which at times stretched for miles in all directions.
"For more than six hours, there was a non-stop programme of flying and aerobatics.”
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The picture shows some of the crowd clambering aboard a jet trainer aircraft.
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