Charles Wallace Craig

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media-13622.jpeg UPL 13622 Aerial photograph of C-47 Skytrains, B-24 Liberators and Gliders at the 2nd Base Air Depot at Warton, January 1945

Image courtesy of Wallace Craig, who's father assembled gliders and drove trucks at BAD 2 after the end of the war.

Object Number - UPL 13622 - Aerial photograph of C-47 Skytrains, B-24 Liberators and Gliders at the 2nd Base Air Depot at Warton, January 1945

Sergeant Charles Wallace Craig was a member of the US 45th Infantry Division. During the war he served in Italy, France and Germany. His feet were frozen in the Vosges Mountains and he was evacuated to Base Air Depot #2 near Warton in January 1945.



Whilst at Warton, waiting for transport home and the end of the war, Craig helped to assemble gliders and became a Jeep Driver.

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Aerial photograph of Warton airfield looking north, the Ribble Estuary is on the left, 22 June 1949. Photograph taken by No. 58 Squadron, sortie number RAF/58/255. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Warton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: BAD-2

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