Woodchurch
Airfield
IWM, English Heritage Collection
Object Number - RAF_106G_UK_1449_RP_3271 - Aerial photograph of Woodchurch airfield looking south, the main runway runs vertically, 1 May 1946. Photograph by No 541 Squadron, sortie number...
An RAF Advanced Landing Ground used in 1943 with temporary runways and buildings, Woodchurch was handed to the Ninth Air Force in 1944, where it was the brief home of the 373rd Fighter Group. It was abandoned and dismantled in 1944-1945. . The present-day private grass airstrip is to the west of the Second World War North-South runway.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 373rd Fighter Group 410th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15095724 / O-822233
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 373rd Fighter Group 410th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16005936 / O-690895
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 373rd Fighter Group 411th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32798111
- Highest Rank: Corporal (RAF)
- 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-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Cookie II
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 373rd Fighter Group 351st Fighter Squadron 410th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 373rd Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron 411th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 373rd Fighter Group 78th Fighter Group 412th Fighter Squadron 84th Fighter Squadron
Revisions
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then And Now, (London, 1994).