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Venlo Airfield after heavy allied Bomber Raids - Related Files

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	First RAF raid against Stuttgart, 24-25 July 1944 461 Lancasters and 153 Halifaxes to Stuttgart. 17 Lancasters and 4 Halifaxes lost, 4.6 per cent of the force. This was the first of 3 heavy raids on Stuttgart in 5 nights and the only report available is a composite one for the 3 raids. The 3 raids caused the most serious damage of the war in the central districts of Stuttgart which, being situated in a series of narrow valleys, had eluded Bomb...		02/11/2007	383
	RAF Birch in September 1944 RAF Birch is a former World War II airfield in England. It is located about 2 miles north-east of Tiptree in Essex. Birch Airfield was assigned USAAF designation as Station 149. Birch Airfield was allocated in August 1942 to the United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force for development into a heavy bomber base but construction work did not get under way until well in...		06/10/2008	279
	RAF Glatton on 16 Oct 1945 RAF Glatton is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 10 miles N of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Glatton was constructed in 1943 and was assigned to the United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force as a heavy bomber airfield. Its layout was unique in that the three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm which continued to operate in the center of the airfi...		05/30/2008	239
	Former RAF Hardwick Hardwick Airfield was one of the early heavy bomber airfields which was constructed for the RAF during 1941-42 in the East Anglian area. After the war, the field was turned over to the RAF on 25 June 1945. The station was immediately put into care and maintenance status, and was eventually closed in 1962. The main airfield buildings, hangars, control tower, etc, were demolished many yea...		11/25/2008	108
	Venlo Railway Bridge - 19 November 1944 This picture shows the results from an attack of RAF bombers against the approaches of the Venlo railway bridge.		10/27/2008	257
	Belaya Airbase with many Tu-22M Bomber Belaya (ICAO: UIIB) is a significant strategic air base in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located 18 km northwest of Usolye-Sibirskoye and 85 km northwest of Irkutsk. It features significant tarmac space and 38 bomber revetments. In 1954 Belaya was used as a staging base for Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft sent to China to observe American fusion bomb tests in the Pacific, but the runway was unpa...		05/11/2007	896
	Stonara Airfield, Italy An old airfield near Cerignola and home of the 456th Heavy bombardment group in World War II.		11/28/2005	324
	Former RAF Attlebridge RAF Attlebridge was originally laid out as a bomber airfield with three intersecting grass runways for light RAF bombers, the runways being quite short.These were later lengthened to standard Class-A bomber airfield lengths of 2000 yards (1828 mtrs) and the subsidiaries being 1400 yards (1280 mtrs) each.		11/25/2008	90
	RAF Kings Cliffe on 16 January 1947 RAF Kings Cliffe is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 12 miles W of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Originally the airfield was grass-surfaced but hard-surfaced runways and a perimeter track were laid down early in 1943. Kings Cliffe was assigned USAAF designation Station 367. It was the most northerly and furthest west of all Eighth Air Force fight...		05/30/2008	195
	RAF Boxted taken on 10 May 1946 RAF Boxted (also known as Langham) is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located west of the A12 road, three miles north of Colchester, and built almost entirely in the village of Langham in Essex. The airfield was given the name Boxted, an adjoining village, because there already was an airfield by the name of Langham in north Norfolk. Boxted has the distin...		06/10/2008	209
	RAF Seething, 16 October 1945 Seething airfield was built in 1942-43 by John Laing & Son Ltd., to the standard Class A requirement for heavy bombers, the airfield had a main runway 6,000 ft. long aligned SW-NE and two secondary runways of 4,200 ft in length. The encircling perimeter track was three miles long. To meet USAAF requirements, there were fifty-one hardstands both of the loop and frying-pan type and two T-2 hangar...		05/31/2007	450
	Damage of the Yap airfield, 1944 Extent of damage from the 7th AAF raids on Yap’s airstrip number one can be seen in this picture of the bomb-pocked airfield and parking areas. A great number of fighter planes are visible.		02/27/2007	220