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 | RAF Warmwell today has been mostly consumed by a gravel extraction operation, although two Bellman Hangars are still in use for fertiliser storage. The Control Tower has been converted into a dwelling and thus many would pass it by without knowing of its former history. Another airfield building has been in use for many years as the village hall. RAF Warmwell was formerly known as Woodsford, th... |  | 06/01/2008 | 458 | 
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 | RAF Hethel is a former World War II airfield used by the US during the Second World War (and briefly as an RAF station) in Norfolk, England situated located 7 miles south west of Norwich.
Hethel airfield was constructd in 1942 for American use and was assigned USAAF designation Station 114.
From 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945, Hethel served as headquarters for t... | | 11/04/2008 | 273 |
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 | Lavansaari aerodrome in Gulf of Finland on 26th August 1943. The photo interpreter has marked down only three fighter aeroplanes at the north part of the runway but I can see two fighters taking off and an Douglas A-20 at a stand from a close-up.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2103/63. | | 10/30/2009 | 26 |
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 | Aerial photo taken by the german Luftwaffe.
RAF Dyce was situated in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Today it is the site of Aberdeen Airport. | | 05/17/2007 | 522 |
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 | A close-up of Carlstrom's hangars & ramp, from a 1943 USDA aerial photo of Carlstrom Field. | | 04/27/2007 | 336 |
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 | A 1943 USDA aerial photo of Dorr Field | | 04/27/2007 | 291 |
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 | This is an aerial Photo of Burscough airfield which was situated 2 miles north of Ormskirk in Lancashire, England.
It was a Royal Naval Air station and the last to be built during WWII.It is believed that this airfiled was earmarked for the RAF however it was built with the normal Navy plan incorporating 4 runways and not 3 as was normal for an RAF station. The runways were also... | | 05/17/2007 | 428 |
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 | RAF Chelveston was a military air base located on the south side of the A45, 5 miles east of Wellingborough, near the village of Chelveston in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom.
During World War II the base was occupied by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. It was given USAAF designation Station 105.
During the Cold War, Chelveston hous... | | 05/09/2007 | 376 |
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 | An aerial photo of part of the Biloxi coastline taken on August 31st, 2005, showing the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
The image was provided by DigitalGlobe. |  | 08/31/2005 | 2,527 |
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 | Thurleigh (pronounced "THIR-lye") was built for RAF Bomber Command in 1941 by W & C French Ltd. one mile north of the village of Thurleigh on farmland between the farms of Buryfields, Bletsoe Park, Manor, and Whitwickgreen. It was eventually modified to Air Ministry Class A airfield specifications, with three converging runways, extended in 1942 to lengths of 6,000 feet (runway 06-24) and 4,200... | | 05/30/2008 | 356 |
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 | The German port city of Wilhelmshaven was bombed twice in 1943 -- once by the USAAF on January 27, and again by the RAF Bomber Command on February 11-12. These aerial reconnaissance images show Wilhelmshaven before and after the two bombings. The second bombing, carried out at night, was especially challenging because of dense cloud cover. Planes equipped with the RAF's newly developed H2S grou... | | 08/06/2008 | 272 |
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 | This photo is from an aerial record compiled by the government in 1944 and shows Wanstead Park and surrounds on 7 August 1944. The H.E. and V1 damage to Heronry Pond can be seen, plus V1 damage in Tennyson Avenue and in Wanstead Park Avenue (just in East Ham but dealt with by Wanstead CD). What appears to be a heavy anti-aircraft battery can also be seen on Wanstead Flats. | | 06/06/2008 | 322 |
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