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Leicester East
Military site : airfield
RAF Leicester East was opened on 8 October 1943 but was downgraded to 'Care and maintenance' status. It was then considered as a base for USAAF Tactical Carrier Group, but then made ready for two Stirling squadrons. USAAF did use/share this site with... -
Leiston
Military site : airfield
Leiston's location only three miles from the North Sea Coast made it ideal as a Fighter Group air base whose job would be to escort bombers across the sea and over occupied Europe. The air base also witnessed the arrival of many very damaged Allied... -
Lenwade House
Military site : non-airfield
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Lesina
Military site : airfield
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Lessay
Military site : airfield
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Lete
Military site : airfield
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Lichfield
Military site : non-airfield
The site of Litchfield Races was used to build a barracks which became operational in 1881. The 1702 grandstand still exists.... -
Lignerolles
Military site : airfield
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Lilford Hall
Military site : non-airfield
The 303rd Station Hospital was formed in the Spring of 1943, and arrived at Lilford Hall in September that year. Its initial 750 beds were used by patients from nearby airbases at Polebrook, Molesworth and Grafton Underwood, mostly wounded airmen.... -
Limburg
Military site : airfield
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Lincoln Hall, Hingham, Norfolk
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Lippitts Hill
Military site : non-airfield
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Liskeard
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Little Heathsite
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Little Staughton
Military site : airfield
Built during 1941-42 potentially as a USAAF bomber base, Little Staughton had three concrete runways, 37 hardstandings, two dispersed T2 hangars and eight Robin hangars. Occupied temporarily from December 1942 by the Advanced Air Depot of the 1st Bomb... -
Little Walden
Military site : airfield
Little Walden was built as a Class A airfield suitable for American heavy bombers. The 409th Bomb Group, as part of the Ninth Air Force, was stationed at the base between March and September 1944, flying A-20 Havocs.... -
Liverpool
Military site : non-airfield
A depot for materiel shipped from the United States - known as an 'Intransit Depot'. Exact location unknown. -
Llanbedr
Military site : airfield
USAAF lodger units occupied this RAF station from 1942-1944, including the 14th Fighter Group. -
Lockinge
Crash site
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London
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Long Kesh
Military site : airfield
RAF station which was allocated to the USAAF but not used. -
Longwater Lane Cemetery, Costessey, Norfolk
Crash site
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Lonray
Military site : airfield
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Lords Bridge
Military site : non-airfield
Some Advanced Ammunition Parks were used to store poison gas bombs or chemical weapons. Exact location unknown. -
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Lucera
Military site : airfield
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Ludham
Military site : airfield
Built for the RAF in 1940-42, Ludham was allocated to the Eighth Air Force 1942 but not used. It remained an RAF and Fleet Air Arm Station from 1942-1945. -
Lurgan
Military site : non-airfield
Used by the 63rd Signal Battalion. -
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Lydda
Military site : airfield
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Lydiard Tregoze
Military site : non-airfield
Lydiard House and Park had a number of uses during the Second World War, which included accommodation for American servicemen. A USAAF hospital was also constructed in the Park. In the later stages of the war and for some time after the buildings were... -
Lymington
Military site : airfield
Used by US units including the 50th Fighter Group. The present-day private grass airstrip is to the north of the Second World War airfield site. -
Lyon / Bron
Military site : airfield
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Maastricht
Military site : airfield
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MacDill Air Force Base
Military site : airfield
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Madna
Military site : airfield
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Madras Army Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Maghaberry
Military site : airfield
Built during 1941-42 as a training and factory airfield satellite to RAF Long Kesh, Maghaberry had three concrete runways, 17 pan and 14 loop type hardstandings, and two T2 hangars. Occupied by RAF Army Co-operation squadrons and Operational Training... -
Maghull
Military site : non-airfield
Location of the Poverty Lane Camp and another camp at Deyes Lane. Black GIs were based here. -
Manchester
Military site : non-airfield
The Camp known as Race Course Camp, Manchester, was on the site of the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens which opened in 1836. The building of a railway and marshalling yards cut the land in two , but would prove invaluable as a Port Transit Depot for the... -
Manduria
Military site : airfield
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Manningtree
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Manston
Military site : airfield
Built for Royal Naval Air Service use in the First World War, it was both an RAF and Fleet Air Arm base from 1918-50, and after the war a USAF Strategic Air Command base from 1950-51, a United States Air Forces Europe base from 1950-58, an RAF station... -
March Army Airfield
Military site : airfield
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Marchington Hall
Military site : non-airfield
In the build up to the Normandy landings Marchington was used as a staging post for US troops newly arrived in the UK from Liverpool. The camp may also have included a Replacement Depot where servicemen would be billeted pending assignment to a unit.... -
Market Lavington
Military site : non-airfield
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Market Street Dormitory, Market Street, Cambridge
Military site : non-airfield
One of the American Red Cross Clubs in Cambridge, Market Street Dormitory facilities for American Servicemen. -
Marklowice
Crash site
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Marks Hall
Military site : non-airfield
Marks Hall's estate was requisitioned in 1941 for the construction of Earls Colne airfield (USAAF Station 358)....
