Harrington Aviation Museum

The Harrington Aviation Museums comprise the Carpetbagger Aviation and Secret War Museum.These museums provide a look that is unusual life on this Top Secret base of the 801st/492nd American Eighth Air Force Bombardment Group during World War 2.Photographs and exhibits vividly current details of procedure Carpetbagger and the key war completed by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and also the United states Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in supplying resistance teams in Occupied Europe with tools, gear and key agents from both Harrington and Tempsford airfields during World War 2; The Thor IRBM nuclear armed rockets that were at Harrington through the 1959 to 63 Cold War period; the real history associated with Harrington airfield; The Royal Observer Corps from its inception in 1925 right through to it's stand down in 1991; air war additionally the Home Front in Northamptonshire as well as other items of similar interest.