RAF Peterhead was in operation for little more than four years, but during that time its pilots and ground crew played a full part in the war effort.
An international group of fliers and their planes patrolled the skies over the north-east from the airfield between July 7, 1941 and mid-August, 1945.
Now, the recently formed RAF Peterhead Heritage Society is hoping to uncover and share tales from the site and remember all those who served there.
The society was established as a sub-group of the Buchan Aero Club, based at the former airfield, with the aim of researching its wartime past.
Club historian Mark Salt has long had an interest in the airfield and launched the society’s Facebook page having already undertaken almost two years of research.
He said: “There’s a huge amount of aviation history around the north-east of Scotland but it’s relatively little known.
“I think there’s a lot of potential there for locals and non-locals alike to grow interested in aviation.
“We started the Facebook page as we’re looking for stories, photographs, ephemera or anything relating to Peterhead and the personnel and civilian support staff that were there through its four years as part of the efforts to bring about peace during the Second World War.
“We’re not forgetting about the people that were at the airfield. We’re trying to remember them and their stories.”
Over the last few months Mr Salt has been contacting groups in Canada, Poland and Czechoslovakia in search of stories.
So far there has been one great surprise for him.
“We’ve managed to find a pilot, Benjamin Scaman, living in Canada,” Mr Salt said.
“At the time, these guys were so young, but he recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
“It was so far in the distant past and there’s not many of them left, so to hear of Mr Scaman was such a surprise.
“His daughter contacted me.
“Mr Scaman is living in a care home in Banff, Canada, and remembers bits and pieces.
“I’ve been speaking to him through his daughter but he’s been able to give me some information about RAF Peterhead despite being ‘weary with years’ as his daughter puts it.”
Mr Salt has also been working with the nephew of a flight sergeant who flew from Peterhead as they are putting together a plaque about him to be hung in the airfield clubhouse.
Ambrose Alexander Graham, known as Sonny, sailed from the Caribbean island of Trinidad in April, 1941, to train as an air gunner.
But he joined 52 Operational Training Unit in Southern England as a pilot instead and soon arrived at RAF Peterhead.
Sadly, by now a warrant officer, he died in 1944, aged just 24, and was laid to rest at Hucknall Cemetery in Nottinghamshire.
Mr Salt is hoping other relatives of airmen would be interested in sharing their stories too.
He has urged anyone with information to contact the RAF Peterhead Heritage Society through its Facebook page.
