Royal Air Force Booker or more simply RAF Booker was a Royal Air Force station located 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north …

Royal Air Force High Wycombe or more simply RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It …

Bomber High Command moved to Naphill, High Wycombe in March 1940. Its commander-in-chief, Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, moved into a centre that had direct communications with all bomber …

Dec 2, 2019 · RAF Daws Hill was established in 1942 when the Air Ministry requisitioned Wycombe Abbey School and its lands. The site originally consisted of a large underground …

Manor, Fawley Court and West Wycombe Park, while Wycombe Abbey was the headquarters of the 8th USAAF, and Aston Abbotts became the home of the Czech government in exile, as …

May 8, 2020 · Wycombe Road, Princes Risborough: Unexploded bomb, houses evacuated. Occurred overnight 15th to 16th November, 1940. Warren farm, Chalfont St Peter: People …

Nov 10, 2022 · During the Second World War (1939 to 1945), over half a million United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen were stationed in Britain. They included leading …

Not your typical RAF station, Daws Hill, located four miles south east of High Wycombe, was established shortly after the US entered WW2, a secret location where the command centre of …

Sep 4, 2019 · VIII Bomber Command was constituted and activated in 1942. It oversaw heavy bombardment operations until February 1944, when it was redesginated as the 8th Air Force. …

History of Royal Air Force High Wycombe Faced with the threat from Hitler's Germany in 1936, the British Government provided a new Secretary of State for Air a new Air Programme.