Army Air Force Stations

This article is a republication of the Guide to the Stations where US Army Air Forces Personnel served in the United Kingdom and on the Continent During World War II. Initially compiled and published by Captain Barry J. Anderson, US Air Force, this one was corrected and encoded by Doc Snafu for the European Center of Military History.

Abbreviations: (AAA) Anti-Aircraft Artillery; (AAF) Army Air Force; (AF) Air Force; (AFCC) Air Force Composite Command; (Ammo) Ammunition; (Anti-Sub) Anti-Submarine; (Avn) Aviation; (BAD) Base Air Depot; (BADA) Base Air Depot Area; (Bn) Battalion; (Bomb) Bombardment; (CADA) Continental Air Depot Area (Provisional); (CARR) Carrier; (CCRC) Combat Crew Replacement Center; (Cmbt) Combat; (Co) Company; (Comd) Command; (Comm) Communication; (Const) Construction; (Ctr) Center; (Det) Detachment; (Div) Division; (Engr) Engineer, Engineering; (Flt) Flight; (Gp) Group; (Hqs) Headquarters; (Intell) Intelligence; (Maint) Maintenance; (Med) Medical; (MP) Military Police; (M.P.) Member of Parliament; (Ord) Ordnance; (Photo) Photographic; (Plt) Platoon; (Prov) Provisional; (QM) Quartermaster; (RAF) Royal Air Force; (RCD) Replacement Control Depot; (Recon) Reconnaissance; (Regt) Regiment; (R&R) Reclamation and Repair; (SADA) Strategic Air Depot Area; (SCSRD) Station Complement Squadron Reinforcement Depot; (SHAFE) Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Europe; (SOS) Services of Supply; (Sp) Special; (Sq) Squadron; (Stn) Station; (Strat) Strategic; (Sys) System; (TAC) Tactical; (Tech) Technical; (Tng) Training; (US) United States (of America); (USSTAFE) United States Strategic Air Forces Europe; (Wg) Wing.

France Airfields
180 (A-420) – Villacoublay France
182 (B-53) – Merville France
183 – Barisey le Cote France
191 – Ollencourt France
194 – Martigues France
195 – Carnillon France
196 – Istres France
379 – St. Germain-en-Laye France
381 – Paris France (45 Sharron)
383 – Bolleville France (A-25c)
384 – Toussus-le-Noble France (A-)
385 – Le Bourget France (AC)
386 – Paris France (1 Rue de Tillsit, Champs Elysees)
388 – Marseilles France (Y-14)
389 – Compiegne France
392 – Bois de Boulogne France (Chateau Rothschild)
393 – Verdun France (A-82)
394 – Le Francport France
395 – Rouen France
396 – Fontenay France
397 – Pierrefonds France
398 – Montdidier France
399 – Fignieres France
496 – Granville France
497 – Querqueville Cherbourg France

Belgian Airfields
181 (A-84) – Chievres Belgium
184 (A-87) – Charleroi Belgium
400 – Virton Belgium

Russian Airfields
559 – Poltava Ukraine
560 – Piryatin Ukraine
561 – Mirgorod Ukraine

English Airfield
101 – High Wycombe Buckinghamshire (Camp Lynn), Headquarters 8th Air Force, VIII Bomber Command
102 – Alconbury Huntingdonshire, 452nd BG, 1st A-Div
103 – Brampton Grange Huntingdonshire, Hq 1st A-Div
104 – Hardwick Norfolk, 20th BW, 93rd BG
105 – Chelveston Northamptonshire, 305th BG
106 – Grafton Underwood Northamptonshire, 384th BG
107 – Molesworth Huntingdonshire, 303rd BG
108 – Old Catton Norfolk (Camp Thomas), 2nd BW, 14th BW
109 – Podington Bedfordshire, 92nd BG
110 – Polebrook Northamptonshire, 351st BG
111 – Thurleigh Bedfordshire, 306th BG
112 – Bovingdon Hertfordshire, 11th Cmbt Crew Replacement Center
113 – Cheddington Buckin. (Marsworth), Hq VIII AF Comp Comd, 12th Cmbt Crew Replac Ctr, 36th BSq, 406th BSq
114 – Hethel Norfolk, 389th BG
115 – Shipdham Norfolk, 44th BG
116 – Elveden Hall Suffolk (Camp Blainey), Hq 3rd A-Div, 92nd Cmbt BW
117 – Kimbolton Huntingdonshire, 379th BG
118 – Wendling Norfolk, 392nd BG
119 – Horham Suffolk, 95th BG, 323rd BG
120 – Attlebridge Norfolk, 466th BG
121 – Bassingbourne Cambridgeshire, 91st BG
122 – Steeple Morden Cambridgeshire, 355th FG
123 – Horsham St. Faith Norfolk, 458th BG
124 – Tibenham Norfolk (Ti Vetshali), 445th BG
125 – Bungay Suffolk (Flixton), 446th BG
126 – Rattlesden Suffolk, 447th BG
127 – Little Staughton Bedfordshire, 2 Adv Air Depot
128 – Deenthorpe Northamptonshire, 401st BG
129 – St. Eval Cornwall, 479th Anti-Sub Group
130 – Glatton Huntingdonshire (Connington), 457th BG
131 – Nuthampstead Hertfordshire, 398th BG
132 – Beccles Suffolk (Ellough), Sq M, 17th RCD, Air Service Comd
133 – East Wretham Norfolk, 359th FG
134 – Eye Suffolk, 490th BG
135 – Hepworth Suffolk, VIII AF Service Comd
136 – Knettishall Suffolk, 388th BG
137 – Lavenham Suffolk, 487th BG
138 – Snetterton Heath Norfolk, 96th BG
139 – Thorpe Abbots Norfolk, 100th BG
140 – Winfarthing Norfolk, 562nd Bsq, VIII AF Service Comd
141 – Bodney Norfolk, 352nd FG
142 – Deopham Green Norfolk, 452nd BG
143 – North Pickenham Norfolk, 492nd BG
144 – Old Buckenham Norfolk, 453rd BG
145 – Rackheath Norfolk, 467th BG
146 – Seething Norfolk, 448th BG
147 – Ketteringham Hall Norfolk, Hq 2nd A-Div, 95th Cmbt BW
148 – Beaumont Essex, 12th AF
149 – Birch Essex, 410th BG
150 – Boxted Essex, 56th FG



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