Zeals
Airfield
IWM, English Heritage Collection
Object Number - RAF_CPE_UK_1821_V_5348 - Aerial photograph of Zeals airfield looking south east, the control tower, technical site and blister hangars are at the top, 4 November 1946....
Zeals was set up as a grass Advanced Landing Ground for the RAF in 1941-42, and allocated to the Eighth Air Force in 1942 but not used. Handed to the Ninth Air Force, it was briefly a Tactical Air Depot before being handed back to the RAF then Royal Navy. It was closed in 1946 and returned to original landowners.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: First Tactical Air Force
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Revisions
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994)
Roger Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 2001)
Chris Ashworth, Action Stations 5: Military Airfields of the South-West (Cambridge, 1982)
