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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... -
Braunshardt
Military site : airfield
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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... -
Brest, France
Military site : non-airfield
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Bretigny
Military site : airfield
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Bretteville-sur-Laize
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 Church
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Brooklands Club, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge
Military site : non-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
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. -
Buc
Military site : airfield
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Buchenwald
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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
Other location
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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
Crash site
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Cakes & Ale Holiday Park, Leiston
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Calverton National Cemetery
Cemetery
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Cambrai/Niergnies
Military site : airfield
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Cambridge
Other location
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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.... -
Camp Pinedale
Military site : non-airfield
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Camp Upton
Military site : non-airfield
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Campsea Ashe
Crash site
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Canrobert
Military site : airfield
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Canterbury, Kent
Other location
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Canvey Island
Crash site
