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Catania Airfield
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
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Chateaudun, France
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Chateaudun-du-Rhumel
Military site : airfield
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Cheddington
Military site : airfield
The main runway at Cheddington fell short of the required 2,000 yards for a class A airfield and it was originally used as a satellite for groups at Bovingdon nearby. Between October 1942 and the end of war in Europe it was used as a Combat Crew... -
Chedworth
Military site : airfield
Chedworth was built as a satellite for RAF Aston Down in 1941-42, and was home to several USAAF lodger units in 1944. After the Second World War it was used as a Royal Navy storage depot, an RAF Landing Ground 1960s-70s, and was home to a civil gliding... -
Chelveston
Military site : airfield
Chelveston was adapted and expanded in preparation for the arrival of American forces. Rather than heavy bombers, the first aircraft to fly from its runways were C-47 Skytrains that were flown by the 60th Troop Carrier Group in July 1942. The first... -
Chelveston Memorial
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Chetwynd Court, Kings Lane, Cambridge
Military site : non-airfield
One of the American Red Cross Clubs in Cambridge, Chetwynd Court Officers' Club provided beds, breakfast, lunches, dinners, snacks, showers, information and lounges for American Servicemen. -
Cheyenne Army Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Chievres
Military site : airfield
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Chilbolton
Military site : airfield
Planned as a grass airfield Relief Landing Ground for RAF Middle Wallop, Chilbolton was used as a fighter and Army Co-operation base during 1940-42. Enlarged and upgraded with a tarmac-surface hard perimeter track, some double blast pens and other... -
Chipelle
Military site : airfield
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Chippenham
Military site : non-airfield
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Chipping Ongar
Military site : airfield
The air base was constructed by the 831st Engineer Battalion (Aviation) in late August 1942. The 387th Bomb Group were the only American group to be based there, flying B-26 Marauders in strategic missions over France, first for the Eighth and then for... -
Chiseldon
Military site : non-airfield
Up to and including the war-time period the village name was Chisledon. Consisted of a large camp/garrison including a hospital at Wroughton. Chiseldon Camp Halt is on the now dismantled Midland and South Western Junction Railway. Exact location unknown. -
Chorley
Military site : non-airfield
Washington Hall was part of the huge Replacement Control Depot network for processing troops newly arrived in England from ports such as Liverpool, prior to their being assigned a unit and had a similar function to the camps at Stone, Staffordshire. -
Chrishall
Military site : non-airfield
On the Cambridgeshire/Essex border immediately to the west of Duxford 357. This site was used as accommodation and comprised Nissen huts, ablution block, latrines and mess hall, some of which remain today. One of the last non-airfield sites to be... -
Christchurch
Military site : airfield
The original Christchurch Airport operated from 1935-39, and the airfield was used by the RAF from 1939 to 1941. It was the site of the Airspeed Aircraft factiry from 1940 to 51. Christchurch was developed for USAAF use in 1943, and the Ninth Air Force... -
Church Street, Old Catton
Crash site
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Church of St Mary the Virgin
Other location
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City of Norwich Aviation Museum
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Clacton-on-Sea
Military site : non-airfield
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Clanfield
Military site : non-airfield
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Clastres
Military site : airfield
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Cluntoe
Military site : airfield
Cluntoe was built for the RAF in 1940-42, before being handed obver to the Eighth Air Force. It was used as a Combat Crew Replacement Centre for the training of crews, and was also home to the 311th Ferrying Squadron. It was closed after being handed... -
Cognac, France
Crash site
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Cokethorpe
Military site : non-airfield
Cokethorpe House was built in 1709 for the Harcourt family. There was a tented camp in the Park grounds. The mansion at Cokethorpe Park has become the independent Cokethorpe School. Exact location unknown. -
Colchester
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Cold Norton
Military site : airfield
Along with Southminster a satellite station of Maldon and one of a list of 75 airfield sites for consideration by the 8th Air Force in July 1942. All three proposed sites had been requisitioned and surveyed but it was decided to defer construction... -
Coleby Grange
Military site : airfield
RAF Coleby Grange is located between the villages of Coleby and Nocton Green on open heathland; used variously by UK, Canadian, US and Polish forces, and in particular by the USAAF around the period of the D-Day landings. Many US servicemen are buried... -
Coleford
Military site : non-airfield
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Colerne
Military site : airfield
Built in 1940 as an RAF Fighter Station, with US fighters based here in late 1942. -
Coltishall
Military site : airfield
Allocated to the USAAF but not used. -
Coltishall
Crash site
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Columbus Army Flying School
Military site : airfield
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Concordia-Vega Refinery (White II)
Crash site
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Coney Weston, Knettishall Memorial
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Coney Weston, Village Sign
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Conflans
Military site : airfield
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Conington village
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