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Erlestoke
Military site : non-airfield
The area was used for accommodation for a Liaison Squadron. Exact location unknown. -
Eschwege
Military site : airfield
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Exeter
Military site : airfield
A private grass airfield 1930s, and Exeter Airport 1938-39, the airfield was also used by National Air Communications (responsible for managing civil flying at the start of the Second World War). Home to part of the Royal Aeronautical Establishment and... -
Eye
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the... -
Eygelshoven
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Eynsham Hall
Military site : non-airfield
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Fairford
Military site : airfield
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. -
Fairland United Reformed Church, Wymondham
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Farabol
Crash site
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Fayid
Military site : airfield
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Feering
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Ferme de la Grange
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Fersfield
Military site : airfield
Originally named Winfarthing when the site was allocated to the Eighth Air Force in 1942, it was renamed Fersfield when built for the Eighth Air Force 1943-44. USAAF and US Navy projects 'Aphrodite' 'Batty' and 'Anvil' (attempts to develop and use... -
Fighting Cocks Pub, St Albans
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Filton
Military site : airfield
Prior to D-Day aircraft imported from the USA (through Avonmouth docks) were assembled at Fliton Aerodrome. It was also one of the main D-Day causality stations, from where the wounded were evacuated to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. 9th Service Command... -
Finkenrath
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Flatford
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Flixton, Suffolk
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Florennes / Juzaine
Military site : airfield
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Folkingham
Military site : airfield
Folkingham was built as a decoy airfield - kniown as a 'KQ' site in 1940-1941. Built up as a bomber Station for the RAF in 1943, it was handed to the Ninth Air Force in 1944, where it was used by the 313th Troop Carrier Group. It was also used as a... -
Forchies-la-marche
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Ford
Military site : airfield
Originally a Royal Flying Corps station at the end of the First World War, the airfield was unused from 1920-1930, and a civil airfield from 1930-1936. Re-used as RAF Ford 1937-39, and operated by the Royal Navy 1939-40, it was allocated for Eighth... -
Forges-les-Eaux
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Foulsham
Military site : airfield
Foulsham was built for the RAF in 1940-42, then used by RAF bombers and RAF special electronic warfare aircraft. An Eighth Air Force Radio Countermeasures detachment was based here in 1944-45 (it also used nearby RAF Oulton. The airfield was closed at... -
Foulsham Village Sign, Foulsham
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Fowey
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Fowlmere
Military site : airfield
Just as nearby Duxford was known as the 'Duck pond' by American airmen, so Fowlmere was known as 'the Hen Puddle' because of the wet conditions that pervaded the bases during the winter of 1943-1944. The 339th Fighter Group had no choice but to persist... -
Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire
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Foxton
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Framlingham
Military site : airfield
Built for the Eighth Air Force from 1942 to 43, Framlingham was home first to the 95th Bomb Group, before that unit moved to RAF Alconbury. From 1943 to 1945, it was operated by the 390th Bomb Group. The airfield was handed back to the RAF in 1945, and... -
Freckleton
Crash site
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Frettenham Village Hall
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Fritton Warren
Military site : non-airfield
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Fritzlar
Military site : airfield
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Fulbeck
Military site : airfield
A Relief Landing Ground for RAF College Cranwell in 1940-42, Fulbeck was developed as RAF Fulbeck bomber station in 1942-43. Operated first by the RAF then the Troop Carrier Groups of the Ninth Air Force in the build up to and exectution of the... -
Furth
Military site : airfield
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Furzedown House
Military site : non-airfield
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Gablingen
Military site : airfield
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Gael
Military site : airfield
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Garvestone
Crash site
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Geiger Field
Military site : airfield
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Gelderingen
Crash site
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Gioia del Colle
Military site : airfield
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Giulia
Military site : airfield
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Glatton
Military site : airfield
Glatton, which lay mostly in the parish of Conington, was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. Unusually, the base's three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm, which remained a working farm... -
Gorges
Military site : airfield
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Gorleston on Sea
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Gosfield
Military site : airfield
First used as an airfield during the First World War, when known as Royal Flying Corps/RAF Sible Hedingham, it was built as Gosfield for the Eighth Air Force and then Ninth Air Force in 1942-43. Home to first the 365th Fighter Group, then the 397th... -
Goswick Bay
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