Fairford
Airfield
IWM, English Heritage Collection
Object Number - RAF_106G_UK_1721_FP_1268 - Aerial photograph of Fairford airfield looking north east, the bomb dump and ammunition dump are at the top, the technical site and control tower are...
Built for the Ninth Air Force, but not used by the USAAF in the Second World War. Became a United States Air Force Europe base in the Cold War.
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Detailed History
According to "38 GROUP OPERATION ORDER NO: 526 for OPERATION "MARKET", copy 68"
this airfield has been used by the RAF to lift:
serial B1, 21 Ind. Para. Coy., by 38 Gp., 6 Stirlings, to LZ S, on september 17, 1944
serial B2, 21 Ind. Para. Coy., by 38 Gp., 6 Stirlings, to DZ X, on september 17, 1944
serial B18, HQ 1 A/B Div., by 38 Gp., 10 Stirlings with Horsa gliders and 1 A/L Lt. Regt., 14 Stirlings with Horsa gliders to LZ Z, on september 17, 1944
serial B21, 1 A/L Lt. Regt., by 38 Gp., 13 Stirlings withHorsa Gliders and Admin, by 38 Gp., 1 Stirling with Horsa glider to LZ Z on september 17, 1944
serial B31, HQ 1 A/B Div., by 38 Gp., 15 Stirlings with Horsa gliders and 1 Para. Bde., by 38 Gp., 5 Stirlings with Horsa gliders to LZ X on september 18, 1944
and later re-supply missions for operation Market-Garden.
Revisions
38 GROUP OPERATION ORDER NO: 526 for OPERATION "MARKET", copy 68
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Michael Bowyer, Action Stations 6: Military Airfields of the Cotswolds and the Central Midlands (Cambridge, 1983)
