Author: Freeman, Roger A.,
Title: AIRFIELDS OF THE EIGHTH - Then and Now.
Description: After the Battle / Battle of Britain Prints, London, 1978, revised edn., 240pp, half tone photo ills., maps / diagrams in text, coloured lettered endpapers, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), marbled crimson rexine cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial endpapers, a record of the nearly 70 airfields that accommodated the US 8th Air Force in the Eastern counties of England in WW2, most of which had to be built in requisitioned farmland, each with three runways the main one being 2000 long with facilities to maintain three bomber or fighter squadrons, nearly all with at least one RAF aerial photograph of the wartime layout, an Ordnance Survey map of the locality, contemporary photographs of aircraft and/or aircrew, an aerial photograph as it is today (1970s), descriptions of major incidents and/or missions flown, etc., slightly cocked, faintly bumped at lower tips, edges lightly foxed, a few marginal fox marks, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., relined at spine ends, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf east anglia suffolk norfolk essex cambridgeshire bedfordshire eighth air force


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