RAF Membury

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Photograph of RAF Membury
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About

RAF Membury, on the Berkshire downs near Lambourn, opened in 1942 and was handed to the United States Army Air Forces as Station 466. A reconnaissance group flying P-51 Mustangs and P-38 Lightnings used it, but its chief role came with the 436th Troop Carrier Group, whose Douglas C-47s trained with the 101st Airborne Division and carried paratroops and gliders on D-Day. The Americans left in 1946 and RAF flying ceased; the M4 motorway was later driven straight across the airfield, and Membury services and a business park now occupy the site, with a smaller airstrip surviving alongside.

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Photographs

Lockheed F-6 of the 67th Reconnaissance Group, RAF Membury, England.
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North American P-51A (F-5) of the 67th Reconnaissance Group, Membury Airfield England during World War II.
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Douglas C-47s and CG-4A Waco Gliders, of the 436th Troop Carrier Group, lined up on the runway at Membury Airfield, England.
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PictionID:41559470 - Title:George Peck Collection Photo - Catalog:George Peck Collection (42) - Filename:George Peck Collection (42).TIF - -----Col. Peck served with the 107th Observation Sq and the 67th Tactical Recon Group during World War Two. He was CO of both the 107th Sq and the 67th Group. ----PLEASE TAG this image with any information you know about it, so that we can permanently store this data with the original image file in our Digital Asset Management System.----SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government. Annotations on photo from Freeman, Roger A., UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now, 1994. / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Membury-8aug44.pngView source & full licence →

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