RAF Ramsbury

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Photograph of RAF Ramsbury
ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government. Annotations on photo from Freeman, Roger A., Airfields Of The Ninth, Then And Now, 1993. / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramsbury-may1944.png

About

RAF Ramsbury was laid out in the Wiltshire downs near Marlborough and opened in 1942. From early 1944 it was a United States Army Air Forces base, home to the 437th Troop Carrier Group, whose Douglas C-47s towed Horsa gliders and dropped paratroops on D-Day and in the airborne operations that followed. The Americans left after the war and the airfield was given up; the runway outlines survive on what is now farmland, with a memorial recalling the group.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Ramsbury — Wikipedia and Ramsbury — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Track near Park Farm, east of Axford This was probably part of the perimeter track of the former Ramsbury airfield. It doesn't go anywhere now.
ⓘ licence & creditBrian Robert Marshall / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Track_near_Park_Farm,_east_of_Axford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1231505.jpgView source & full licence →
Pond and track, near Park Farm, east of Axford The area is part of the old wartime Ramsbury airfield. The pond may once have been part of the firefighting provisions. It is just inside the eastern edge of this square.
ⓘ licence & creditBrian Robert Marshall / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pond_and_track,_near_Park_Farm,_east_of_Axford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1231497.jpgView source & full licence →
Farmland, Ramsbury A field of oats growing in the middle of what was RAF Ramsbury, a WW2 airfield.
ⓘ licence & creditAndrew Smith / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmland,_Ramsbury_-_geograph.org.uk_-_857291.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government. Annotations on photo from Freeman, Roger A., Airfields Of The Ninth, Then And Now, 1993. / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramsbury-may1944.pngView source & full licence →

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