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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 Church
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Brooklands Club, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge
Military site : airfield
One of the American Red Cross Clubs in Cambridge, the Brooklands Club provided meals, snacks, information, beds and lounges for American Servicemen. -
Brookwood
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Brucheville
Military site : airfield
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Bruern Abbey
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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
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Headquarters Air technical Services Command in Europe. Exact location unknown. -
Buc
Military site : airfield
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Buckfastleigh
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Buckland House
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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... -
Burn Fell, Trough of Bowland
Crash site
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Burton Rough
Military site : non-airfield
This woodland area was used by 461st Signal Construction Battalion.... -
Burton-on-Trent
Military site : non-airfield
The Wetmore Road industrial area was taken over by US servicemen. This location is sandwiched between the River Trent and railway marshalling yards. -
Burtonwood
Military site : airfield
Built for the RAF in 1939-40, the RAF's No. 37 Maintenance Unit used the base from 1940 to 1942, before it became a joint Anglo-American maintenance and servicing airfield - a Base Air Depot. After the war it continued to be used as a maintenance and... -
Bury St Edmunds
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and... -
Bury St Edmunds, Abbey Gardens
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Bushey Hall
Military site : non-airfield
Requisitioned in 1942 and handed over to the Eighth Air Force later that year; USAAF used it as the Headquarters VIIIth Fighter Command due to its proximity to RAF Fighter Command headquarters at Bentley Priory. After the Berlin Airlift (1948-49) it... -
Cairngarroch Bay
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Cakes & Ale Holiday Park, Leiston
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Cambrai/Niergnies
Military site : airfield
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Cambridge
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Cambridge American Cemetery
Cemetery
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Cambridge Herschel Road
Military site : non-airfield
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Camp Griffiss
Military site : non-airfield
Named Camp Griffiss after Colonel Townsend Griffiss, the first US casualty of the war, killed when his aircraft was downed by friendly fire. Map location based on the position of General Eisenhower's office. -
Campsea Ashe
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Canterbury, Kent
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Cardonville
Military site : airfield
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Carentan
Military site : airfield
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Carleton Rode
Crash site
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Carlstrom Field
Military site : airfield
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Carlton Colville
Crash site
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Castel Volturno
Military site : airfield
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Castelluccio
Military site : airfield
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Cawston
Crash site
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Celone
Military site : airfield
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Chalgrove
Military site : airfield
Chalgrove was built as a USAAF transport or observation unit base in 1943-44. Several reconnaissance units operated from the airfield, including the Ninth Air Force's 10th Photographic Group and 423rd Night Fighter Squadron (later 155th Reconnaissance... -
Chapel Row
Military site : non-airfield
Home of 306 Fighter Control Sq, XXIX Tac Air Command. Exact location unknown -
Charborough Park
Military site : non-airfield
Home to a Quartermaster unit. Appears to be the grounds of Charborough House and deer park; county boundary change to Dorset in 1970s. Exact location unknown. -
Charleroi
Military site : airfield
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Charles Gumm Memorial Bench, Nayland
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Charmy Down
Military site : airfield
Charmy Down was built for the RAF in 1940, and used by the Ninth Air Force from 1943 - initially as a maintenance and servicing airfield, then as a base for operating A-20 Havoc night fighters of the 422nd, 423rd and 425th Night Fighter Squadrons 1944... -
Chartres
Military site : airfield
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Chateaudun
Military site : airfield
