A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• How this book was produced
• Composition of the Eighth Air Force
• Map of Airfields
• ALCONBURY Station 102
• ANDREWS FIELD (GREAT SALING) Station 485
• ATCHAM Station 342
• ATTLEBRIDGE Station 120
• BASSINGBOURN Station 121
• BODNEY Station 141
• BOTTISHAM Station 374
• BOVINGDON Station 112
• BOXTED Station 150
• BUNGAY Station 125
• BURY ST. EDMUNDS (ROUGHAM) Station 468
• CHEDDINGTON (MARSWORTH) Station 113
• CHELVESTON Station 105
• CHIPPING ONGAR (WILLINGALE) Station 162
• DEBACH Station 152
• DEBDEN Station 356
• DEENETHORPE Station 128
• DEOPHAM GREEN Station 142
• DUXFORD Station 357
• EARLS COLNE Station 358
• EAST WRETHAM Station 133
• EYE Station 134
• FOWLMERE Station 378
• FRAMLINGHAM (PARHAM) Station 153
• GLATTON (CONINGTON) Station 130
• GOXHILL Station 345
• GRAFTON UNDERWOOD Station 106
• GREAT ASHFIELD Station 155
• GREAT DÜNMOW Station 164
• HALES WORTH Station 365
• HARDWICK Station 104
• HARRINGTON Station 179
• HETHEL Station 114
• HONINGTON Station 375
• HORHAM Station 119
• HORSHAM ST. FAITH Station 123
• KIMBOLTON Station 117
• KINGSCLIFFE Station 367
• KNETTISHALL Station 136
• LAVENHAM Station 137
• LEISTON (THEBERTON/SAXMUNDHAM) Station 373
• LITTLE WALDEN Station 165
• MARTLESHAM HEATH Station 369
• MENDLESHAM Station 156
• METFIELD Station 366
• MOLESWORTH Station 107
• MOUNT FARM Station 234
• NORTH PICKENHAM Station 143
• NUTHAMPSTEAD Station 131
• OLD BUCKENHAM Station 144
• PODINGTON Station 109
• POLEBROOK Station 110
• RACKHEATH Station 145
• RATTLESDEN Station 126
• RAYDON Station 157
• RIDGEWELL Station 167
• SEETHING Station 146
• SHIPDHAM Station 115
• SNETTERTON HEATH Station 138
• STEEPLE MORDEN Station 122
• SUDBURY Station 174
• THORPE ABBOTTS Station 139
• THURLEIGH (BEDFORD) Station 111
• TIBENHAM (TIVETSHALL) Station 124
• WATTISHAM Station 377
• WATTON Station 376
• WENDLING Station 118
• WORMINGFORD Station 159