Facebook X YouTube Instagram Pinterest NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Invasion Airfields (ePub)

Then and Now

Aviation > Royal Air Force Aviation > WWII Military > After the Battle > After the Battle: Aviation Military > After the Battle > After the Battle: Photographic Military > After the Battle > After the Battle: WWII WWII > Battles & Campaigns > D-Day & Normandy WWII > Photographic eBooks

By Winston G Ramsey
Imprint: After the Battle
Series: Then and Now
File Size: 186.7 MB (.epub)
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 650
ISBN: 9781399076999
Published: 30th August 2017

in_stock

£4.99 Print price £34.95

You save £29.96 (86%)

Click here for help on how to download our eBooks

You'll be £4.99 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Invasion Airfields. What's this?
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates

Other formats available - Buy the Hardback and get the eBook for free! Price
Invasion Airfields Hardback Add to Basket £24.47


In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that ‘on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases’.   In their forecasts for the first three months following D-Day, the planners plotted the number of the advanced landing grounds that would be required in Normandy to support the Allied air forces up to September 1944. Using maps and aerial photographs, individual sites were surveyed and plans drawn up so that when each location was captured, either US Aviation Engineers, the Royal Engineers or RAF Airfield Construction Wings, could move in without delay to begin work to build them. This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D+90, explaining the methods used to construct them and the units that flew from them. The vast majority of the temporary airstrips have now been returned to the farmland from which they came, but by using engineers’ plans from the period and modern aerial photographs, we have portrayed the sites in true After the Battle fashion: as they were then and as they are today.

There are no reviews for this book. Register or Login now and you can be the first to post a review!

More titles by Winston G Ramsey

Other titles in the series...

Other titles in After the Battle...