Andover
Airfield
IWM, English Heritage Collection
Object Number - 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...
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
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 485th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17152784 / O-769905
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: XIX Tactical Air Command 100th Fighter Wing 563rd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
- Service Numbers: 12187689
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Repairman
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Nancy Lee
- Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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)