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Canford Park School


Note: I am clutching at straws here. Can anybody kindly offer advice?


CANFORD PARK SCHOOL: Military airstrip/airfield

Military user: USAAF units from TURBARY COMMON. Presumably light communications types such as Piper L-4 Grasshoppers etc?


Location:  ?  Perhaps roughly 3nm NW of Bournemouth town centre?

Period of operation: Hard to say, probably during the ‘D-day’ offensive period. !944-45?

 

NOTES: When being used this location was probably in DORSET?

See listing for CANFORD VILLAGE which might well add further light on the subject.

 


 
 

Dr Mike Osborne

This comment was written on: 2020-01-09 15:59:55
 
I believe it was used by a US Army Field Artillery unit for AOPs in the run up to D-Day when 1st US Army was based in south-west England with HQ at Clifton College, Bristol using Beggar's Bush field as airstrip.
 

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