RAF Spanhoe
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RAF Spanhoe opened in Northamptonshire near Uppingham in 1944 as a United States Army Air Forces base. It was home to the 315th Troop Carrier Group, whose Douglas C-47s carried American and Polish paratroops in the airborne operations of 1944; a take-off collision in July that year killed a number of Polish paratroopers, commemorated locally. The Americans left after the war, but the field survives as a small airfield home to privately owned light aircraft.
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British Government / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spanhoe-2mar44.jpgView source & full licence →No people are cross-referenced to this airfield yet. Links appear as squadron postings, crews and service records are added.