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A Guide to the history of British flying sites within the United Kingdom

CHARBOROUGH PARK: Military airstrip (Also known as CHARBOROUGH HOUSE)

Aerial view

Local area view

Area view

The aerial view was obtained from Google Earth ©. The local area and area views are from my Google Earth © derived database.

Military user: US First Army ‘V’ Corps, Ist Infantry Division, (Artillery HQ),58th Armed Field Battalion

Location: S of the A31, about 1.5nm SW of sturminster Marshall and roughly 5.5nm SSE of Blandford Forum town centre

Period of operation: 1944/5 only?

NOTES: It appears that nine Piper L-4 Grasshoppers and one Stinson L-5 Sentinel were based here during the run-up to D-Day, and then beyond.