Crookham Common
Note: This map only shows the position of Crookham village within the UK. It appears that CROOKHAM COMMON was either near or perhaps part of what later became GREENHAM COMMON air base? Any advice on this will be most welcome.
CROOKHAM COMMON: Military aerodrome
Military user: US Army Air Corps
Location: Roughly 1.5nm WSW of BRIMPTON?
Period of operation: 1941 to 1945 only?
Runways: ‘All over’ grass airfield?
NOTES: It appears that this area was requisitioned for use as an airfield in 1941. And, during WW2 many US Army liaison aircraft were assembled here after shipment from the USA.
Also, in the run-up to D-Day it became a 'Glider Assembly Camp' for the 101st Airborne Division of the USAAF. Presumably these gliders were taken across to GREENHAM COMMON to be towed-off from there for the D-Day invasion?
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