Andover
Airfield
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RAF_106G_UK_839_RP_3082
Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
Historic England
IWM, English Heritage Collection
Andover was built in the First World War and used by the Royal Flying Corps, then the RAF. Home to the 370th Fighter Group in 1944, it was then handed back to the RAF. The airfield closed in 1976, and the site has since been used by the British Army.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: O-789887
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-807304
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-26279
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 485th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-763232
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Nicknames: Bomba Dear
- Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 485th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Sierra Sue II
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 401st Fighter Squadron
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Sources
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994)
Chris Ashworth, Action Stations 9: Military Airfields of the Central South and South-east (Cambridge, 1985)