Eastcote
Military site
Associated subjects depicted in image
Object Number - UPL 37218 - American officers of the 9th Troop Carrier Command in a photo-op with Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory (first on the left). Silas Rhead...
During the war the area between Eastcote Road and Lime Grove was known as HMS Pembroke and supported operations at Bletchley Park (encryption and code-breaking). After the war Pembroke's role was as GCHQ until the move to Cheltenham.
Eastcote House was the wartime Food Control Office for the British government.
Exact location unknown.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Headquarters (IX Air Force Troop Carrier Command)
- Service Numbers: AO-308992
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Planning Officer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: British
Revisions
An inquiry to the Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote Local History Society led me to two articles in their journal for 1999, available online at: http://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site8867/Journals/Pre2001/Sear….
Correlated with Google Earth satelite and street views. (Camera: 516 m 51 degrees 34' 59" N o degrees 24' 07" W)
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / http://www.eastcotera.co.uk/eastcote/local-history
