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Airfields & Aviation Memorials
A large and professional looking pictorial database of UK airfields (including many aerial shots), with much useful information and cross-references/links.
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British
Airfield Buildings of WW2
A superb pocket reference
book, it has 128 pages in colour showing examples of all the
popular standard designs of the period, from control towers
to hangars, barrack blocks to decontamination centres. |
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World
War 2 EX RAF
This is a 'must see' site,
particularly if you are trying to trace relatives or friends
that served in the RAF. |
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RAF
Broadwell
A local website that contains
interesting and personal accounts, as some interesting photo's |
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RAF
Lincolnshire
An interesting website
running a parallel interest to my own in local airfields - except
that there are many more to choose from! |
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RAF
Driffield
A good website
dedicated to RAF Driffield, with excellent research material,
personal accounts, and photo's |
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RAF
Little Rissington
A well developed site
devoted to RAF Little Rissington, which contains history,
local images, and memoirs from ex-Station personnel. Some
excellent links too...
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RAF
Upper Heyford
As mentioned on my home
page, I said I would provide links to any sites with written
content - and this site by Paul Francis gives an interesting
account of the history to this Station. |
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The RAF
Upper Heyford Memorial Web Site
"Dedicated to all
who served at RAF Upper Heyford, England". An invaluable
reference and contact site for all those connected with this
famous airfield, researched and provided by Duane Park |
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controltowers.co.uk
An excellent website
devoted to Control Towers in the UK. Also contains much useful
information about the airfields, including potted history
and layout details.
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Fields
of Valour - Revisited
Another good
website with many excellent & recent images of Glatton,
King's Cliffe, Polebrook and Deenthorpe. |
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Archie
- A Pilot in RAF Bomber Command
A most interesting site
about a pilot in Bomber Command during WW2, who flew on the
Dec 1941 raids against the Battleship Scharnhorst, taking
off from RAF
Stanton Harcourt.
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Airfield
Research Group
A website dedicated to
the research and recording of British Airfields. Recently
resurrected, it contains contains many useful links and is
an excellent starting point for further airfield investigation.
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Conserving
Military Airfields
Notes about military airfields
by Jeremy Lake explaining the approach followed in selecting
sites and buildings for protection. Interesting reading. |
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Mighty
8th Cross Reference
A site intended to be an
accurate and helpful - but not necessarily exhaustive - guide
to the organization of the 8th Air Force of the United States
Army Air Forces in mid-1944 |
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Bases
of the 8th and 9th USAAF, the RAF and others in Britain
A large,comprehensive
site with many links, extensive listings and research material.
It's good so be prepared to spend a long time here! |
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Further
information about Shellingford
Part of an excellent local
community website has more reading about this airfield and its
history. |
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Fairford
Branch Line
An excellent
site containing many images and notes about this railway, which
happened to serve several military installations in Oxfordshire
during the war |
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The Battle of Arnhem Archive
Loads of info about this famous battle, and from many different perspectives. Be prepared to spend a long time at this excellent site! |
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