Bovingdon Airfield

The airfield was developed during 1941/2 by John Laing & Son Ltd as the main contractor, with one runway at 1,630 yards and two at 1,430 yards. It was placed under the control of No7 Group of Bomber Command, but on the 16th May it was allocated to the USA AF.

With its main runway over one mile long, it was home to the American Air Force from 1943 - 1963 and was known as US Air Station 112. It served as a major heavy bomber operational training base for B-17 crews until the end of the Second World War. In the fifties the 75 31st Air Base Squadron, flying Douglas C-47 transport planes moved in along with two RAF Communications units.
AACS Army Airways Communications System

Some days four-engine bombers would leave for Germany at the rate of one every two minutes and seemed as though they would hit the chimneys of the houses in their flight path.

92nd Bomb Group (Heavy) Including the 327th Squadron Organizes, constructs and operates the first 8th USAAF CCRC Combat Crew Replacement Center at Bovingdon England. More..

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World War II Bomber Pilot

Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust

Robert Trumans Link