According to the Ravenshead Newsletter History pages there was an airfield.
The craft centre on Longdale Lane has a military look to it even today. The entrance to a field across the road from it also has a military appearance.
My late Father knew there was a secret airfield there but I can recall no details
Okinawa was another in the long line of islands, leading them nearer to Japan. The capture of Okinawa would give the Americans an airfield, and a shorter flight to bomb mainland of Japan.
During WWII the airfield at Heathhall, Dumfries was attacked by a lone fighter and I believe he was shot down and the pilot killed. The pilot was believed to have been buried in Troqueer Church, Dumfries. Gretna, Dumfriesshire, was bombed on 7th April 1941. Seven bombs were dropped causing the loss of 28 killed.
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Schools were not closed during World War 1.
During and after
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In the Somme valley. It was where Richthofen squadron was stationed.
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Farnborough was an RAF airfield during Wprld War 2 so it would most likely have been bombed.
During World War 2, the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Mississippi for antisubmarine defence in the Gulf of Mexico, and for training pilots and air crews of the USAAF fighters and bombers. These were the vital airfields in Mississippi: --------------------------------------------------- Columbus Army Airfield---Columbus, Mississippi Fletcher Army Airfield---Clarksdale, Mississippi Greenwood Army Airfield---Greenwood, Mississippi Greenville Army Airfield---Greenville, Mississippi Gulfport Army Airieild---Gulfport, Mississippi Jackson Army Air Base---Jackson, Mississippi Keesler Army Airfield---Biloxi, Misssissippi Clevland Army Airfield---Clevland, Mississippi Key Field---Meridian Mississippi Laural Army Airfield---Laural, Mississippi Hattiesburg Army Airfield---Hattiesburg, Mississippi Grenada Army Airfield---Grenada, Mississippi ------------------------------------------------------------------ The the vital importance of Mississippi in World War 2 was because of it's numerous Airfields and Air Bases.
Shortly before and during World War II (1939-1945) Akishima was an important center of aircraft manufacturing. It also was the site of Tachikawa Airfield, which extended into Akishima from the neighboring city of Tachikawa. After the war the airfield became a United States Air Force base.
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Because it had an airfield capable of operating fighters.
Not as we would have seen during the first World War but there were a number of foxholes (DFP : defensive fighting position)around Henderson Field that Marines used as the Japanese tried to overrun the airfield .
I guess so.
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