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Bertreaux Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Beuzeville
Military site : airfield
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Biggin Hill
Military site : airfield
An RAF Station with US lodger units. USAAF Spitfires and P-38s were attached to RAF No 11 Group stations in mid-1942 for training; also used for special operations by British and US forces. -
Birch
Military site : airfield
Allocated to Eighth Air Force 1942 and built for Ninth Air Force use in 1943-1944, Birch was the temporary home of the 410th Bomb Group. It was an Eighth Air Force reserve airfield from 1944-1945, and used briefly by the RAF at the end of the war. It... -
Birmingham
Military site : non-airfield
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Bishopstrow
Military site : non-airfield
Mobile Repair and Reclamation Squadrons were based here. Exact location unknown. -
Bishop’s Stortford
Military site : non-airfield
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Bisterne
Military site : airfield
Built as an Advanced Landing Ground for the RAF in 1943, it was developed for use by the Ninth Air Force in 1943-1944. The 371st Fighter Group used the airfield, before it was closed and returned to agriculture in 1944-45. -
Black Hameldon, Burnely
Crash site
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Blakehill Farm
Military site : airfield
Allocated to the Ninth Air Force but not used. -
Boca Raton Army Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Bocking B-17 Memorial
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Bodney
Military site : airfield
Before the Americans arrived Bodney was a grass-surfaced airfield. So when the 352nd Fighter Group arrived with heavy P-47 Thunderbolts, work was carried out to strengthen its roads and runways with steel matting, concrete and tarmac. Nissen huts also... -
Bois Hall
Military site : non-airfield
The old Hall buildings were enlarged at the turn of the 18th Century. -
Boisleux-au-Mont
Crash site
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Bone Airfield
Military site : airfield
During World War II the airport was known as Bone Airfield, and was used by the German Luftwaffe. Later captured by the United States Army, the USAAF Twelfth Air Force in the Western Desert Campaign in 1942-1943.... -
Boreham
Military site : airfield
Built in 1943-1944, it was used by B-26 Marauder bombers of the Ninth Air Force's 394th Bomb Group in 1944. The 315th Troop Carrier Group were temporary lodgers at the airfield in 1945, shortly before it closed.... -
Borkum Island
Crash site
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Bottesford
Military site : airfield
Built as an RAF bomber station during 1940-41 and improved in 1943, Bottesford eventually had three concrete runways, 26 pan and 21 loop hardstandings, and nine T2 plus one B1 hangars. The station was occupied by the RAF from November 1941 to November... -
Bottisham
Military site : airfield
The P-47 Thunderbolts of the 361st Fighter Group damaged the surfaces of the airfield so much in the first months of flying from Bottisham that American engineers were called in to lay a new runway. In January 1944 they constructed a 1,470-yard-long... -
Bournemouth
Military site : non-airfield
Home to a variety of units, mainly US Army but with some USAAF support units. Exact location unknown. -
Bovingdon
Military site : airfield
Bovingdon, in Hertfordshire (often confused with Bovington, Dorset), was built in 1941-42 as a bomber station but was never developed into a fully-fledged heavy bomber airfield as it did not have the required 2,000 yard runway.... -
Bowes Moor
Military site : non-airfield
Site of a Chemical storage facility. It closed at the end of the war and many of the chemicals were burnt and some areas concreted over. The infrastructure is still clearly visible. Although the surrounding area is farmland there is no access permitted... -
Boxted
Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs... -
Boxted Airfield Museum
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Braintree
Military site : non-airfield
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Brampton Grange
Military site : non-airfield
The First Air Division HQ was established at the Grange Hotel, Brampton and very quickly became operational on 15th June 1942 under the command of Colonel Claude E Duncan; on 19th August, Brampton was officially activated as the First Bomb Wing... -
Bray Court
Military site : non-airfield
Site of disused RAF Bray/RAF Bray Court. Home of some USAAF support units, including Engineering and Quartermaster units. -
Braybrooke
Military site : non-airfield
Advance Ammunition Parks used by the RAF were often enlarged to include USAAF munitions. These dumps which might exploit natural cave systems or dense woodland, also included concrete structures as a means of protection. Some were also used to store... -
Breamore
Military site : airfield
A temporary grass airstrip in the grounds of Breamore House, used as HQ by US VII Corps from October 1943, & as temporary HQ by US 3rd Army under General Patton from June to July 1944.... -
Brenzett
Military site : airfield
Intersecting Sommerfeld track (steel mesh) runways were build (1943) on Romney Marsh and as RAF Brenzett, was to be used as an Advanced Landing Ground, for an allied assault on mainland Europe. In 1944 it was allocated to the Americans who used it to... -
Bretigny
Military site : airfield
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Bretteville-sur-Laize, France
Crash site
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Brigg
Military site : non-airfield
Home to some support units, including Quatermaster units. Exact location unknown - based on village centre. -
Brighton
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Bristol
Military site : non-airfield
Home to a Quartermaster Truck unit. Exact location unknown - based on city centre. -
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Brome Village
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Brome Village Church
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Brookwood
Military site : non-airfield
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Brucheville Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Bruern Abbey
Military site : non-airfield
Bruern Abbey House (1720) built on the site of a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1147. Currently an Independent Preparatory School. -
Brugelette
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Bryanston Square
Military site : non-airfield
Headquarters Air technical Services Command in Europe. Exact location unknown. -
Buckfastleigh
Military site : non-airfield
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Buckland House
Military site : non-airfield
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Bungay
Military site : airfield
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd... -
Bungay Community Centre
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Bures
Military site : non-airfield
Advance Ammunition Parks used by the RAF were often enlarged to include USAAF munitions. These dumps which might exploit natural cave systems or dense woodland, also included concrete structures as a means of protection. Some were also used to store...
