Frome
FROME: Military airstrip
Military user: US First Army ‘XIX’ Corps
3rd Armoured Division Artillery
54th Armoured Field Artillery Battalion
Location: ?
Period of operation: 1944/5 only?
NOTES: It appears that just two Piper L-4 Grasshoppers were based here.
The map simply shows the location of the town. If anybody can place the location more precisely I would much appreciate the information.
Robin Whitlock
This comment was written on: 2017-08-14 14:29:31Hi, I am curious to know where you got that information from, as I am a freelance journalist with a special interest in WW2, and I can't find any reference to Frome airfield online apart from this. Thanks, Robin
Reply from Dick Flute:
Hi Robin, I have been researching this general subject for at least twenty years and it would of course be a task equal to creating the web-site to list where exactly I have found every source of information. The web is often useful but a very poor substitute for books, back-issues of newspapers and magazines - plus of course various archives. This said, I suspect I came across this particular info in 'Lightplanes at War' by Ken Wakefield. Hope this helps. Best regards, Dick
Michael T Holder
This comment was written on: 2020-05-24 16:00:31From the Somerset Standard – Friday 27 August 1920 – Advert for Berkshire Aviation Co. – Exhibition and Passenger Flying at Southfield Farm (Main Road Entrance) Frome, from 31 Aug to 10 Sep, 1030am till dusk. Flights from 21 shillings – Admission 8d Southfield Farm – 51 13 22”N 002 18 40”W – Lies, to the west, immediately against the Wilts Somerset & Weymouth. I assume the field to the east over the rail bridge was the one that was used.
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