RAF Welford

51.4683, -1.4036 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Welford opened in Berkshire in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces troop-carrier station. The Douglas C-47s of the 315th and 435th Troop Carrier Groups trained with the 101st Airborne Division and carried paratroops on D-Day and in the airborne operations that followed. Reopened in the 1950s, it remains an active United States Air Force base today — a munitions-storage depot said to be one of the largest in western Europe.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Welford — Wikipedia and Welford — 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

{{En-gb|Aerial photograph of Welford Airfield in , England, May 1944.}}
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