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 Capt Barry J. Anderson, US Air Force, this one was corrected and encoded by Doc Snafu for the European Center of Military History.
Reviewed by Doc Snafu on May 14, 2026.
Images Source from Air & Space Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine
Abbreviations
(AAA) : Anti-Aircraft Artillery
(AAD) : Advanced Air Depot
(AAF) : Army Air Forces
(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
(HQ) : 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(s)) : Squadron(s)
(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
Bell P-39 Aerocobra ★ P-39s did their best work on the Eastern front, where Soviet pilots did battle with the Luftwaffe at medium altitude. A decision not to equip the Allison engine in the P-39 with a two-stage supercharger left it gasping for air at high altitudes (Zach Rosenberg)
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
North American P-51 Mustang ★ Most people who know warbirds consider the P-51 (foreground, flying with a B-17 during a 2009 demonstration) the best fighter of World War II. It was conceived in April 1940, when the Royal Air Force asked North American Aviation to build more Curtiss P-40s. North American’s President Dutch Kindelberger countered with an offer to deliver a wholly new design, and the first Mustang flew six months later. In the following year, the addition of a Merlin 61 engine (upgraded in later models) gave the XP-51B the combination of range and speed that would come to secure the P-51’s legend. Escorting bombers to Berlin and whupping the German fighters that attacked them, the P-51 was significant in weakening the German air force.
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
Lockheed P-38 Lightning ★ Though no Luftwaffe pilot was ever happy to see the P-38 (they called it the “forked-tail devil”), the twin-engine, twin-boom fighter made its reputation in the Pacific, where pilots outfought Mitsubishi A6M Zeros. With speeds in excess of 400 mph, a range of 1,300 miles, and four M2 Browning .50s in its nose, the Lightning was a threat in any theater
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 Buckinghamshire / 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 Combat 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
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ★ The heaviest single-engine aircraft of the war, the P-47 was a tail-sitter with wide-stance landing gear and flat-face radial engine giving it the look of an aggressive bull-dog. Its 2,000-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 18-cylinder radial engine, boosted by a General Electric turbosupercharger, endowed it with 400+ mph performance up to 40,000 feet. But it frequently flew low to annihilate armored vehicles, trains, gun emplacements, and anything unlucky enough to be under its flight path.
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 Bomber Group
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
151 – Butley Suffolk / Emergency Landing Field (Bentwaters)
152 – Debach Suffolk / 493rd BG
153 – Framlingham Suffolk (Parham) / 390th BG
154 – Gosfield Essex / 410th BG
155 – Great Ashfield Suffolk / 385th BG
156 – Mendelsham Suffolk / 34th BG
157 – Raydon Suffolk / 353rd FG
158 – Sudbury Derbyshire / Signal Storage Depot #1
159 – Wormingford Essex / 55th FG / 362nd FG
160 – Marks Hall Essex / 4th BW / 98th Cmbt BW
161 – Boreham Essex / 394th BG
162 – Chipping Ongar Essex (Willingdale) / 387th BG
163 – Cold Norton Essex / 8th AF
164 – Great Dunmow Essex (Little Easton) / 386th BG
165 – Little Walden Essex (Hadstock) / 361st FG / 409th BG
166 – Matching Essex / 391st BG
167 – Ridgewell Essex / 381st BG
168 – Rivenhall Essex / 397th BG
169 – Stansted Essex (Mountfitchet) / 344th BG / 2nd Tac Air Depot
170 – Wethersfield Essex / 416th BG
171 – Stisted Hall Essex / unknown
172 – Snettisham Norfolk / 1st Cmbt Crew Gunnery Sq
173 – Dunkeswell Devon / 479th Anti-Sub Group
174 – Sudbury Suffolk (Acton) / 92nd Cmbt BG / 486th BG
175 – Mousehole Cornwall / Det 18th Weather Sq
176 – Narborough Norfolk / 8th AF
177 – Ludham Norfolk / 9th AF
178 – MatlaskNorfolk / IX Engr Command
179 – Harrington Northamptonshire / 492nd BG
180 (A-420) – Villacoublay France / Hq 27th Air Trans G / 370th ASG
181 (A-84) – Chievres Belgium / 352nd FG / 361st FG
182 (B-53) – Merville France / 8th AF
183 – Barisey la Cote France / 761st Avn Chem Co / IX RADA
184 (A-87) – Charleroi Belgium / Hq VIII F-Comm / 67th Tac Recon Group
185 – Wittem Holland / 57th FC Sq
186–187–188–189–190 unknown or unattributed
191 – Ollencourt France / Det E, Hq Sq 9th BADA
192–193 unknown
194 – Martigues France / 345th Sig Co Wing
195 – Carnillon France / 384th BG
196 – Istres France / 409th Air Service Group
197–230 unknown or unattributed
Vought FG-1D Corsair ★ Another fighter powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, the Corsair was intended for the Navy, but the initial designs provided pilot visibility too poor for carrier landings. Early production runs were given to the Marines, therefore, who turned them into legend. When the cockpit hood was redesigned, the Navy needed so many Corsairs that Vought opened production lines with Brewster and Goodyear—the former producing the FG-1 series, which flew in the May 2014 flyover. Above is an F4U-5N.
231 – Kirkcassock House County (Nyack) / 496th FTG / VIII AF Comp Comd
232 – Long Kesh County Down (Northern Ireland) / VIII AF Comp Comd
233 – Belfast County Antrim Northern Ireland / VIII AF Comp Comd
234 – Mount Farm Oxfordshire / 7th Photographic Group
235 – Nutts Corner County Antrim (N-I) / 1404th AAF Base Unit
236 – Toome County Londonderry (N-I) / Hq 3rd Cmbt Crew Rep Comd
237 – Greencastle County Down (N-I) / 496th FTG / 12th CCRC
238 – Cluntoe County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) / CCRC B
239 – Maghaberry County Down (Northern Ireland) / 27th Air Trans Group
240 – Mullaghmore County Londonderry (N-I) / VIII AF Comp Comd
241 to 340 : unknown
341 – Bushey Hall Hertfordshire (Watford) / Hq VIII Fighter Command
342 – Atcham Shropshire / 495th FTG /6th FW
343 – Biggin Hill Kent / 2nd FSq / 307th FSq
344 – Eglinton County Londonderry (Northern Ireland) / 82nd FG
345 – Goxhill Lincolnshire / 496th FTGroup / 79th Service Group
346 – High Ercall Shropshire / 31st FG / 1st FG / 92nd FSq
347 – Ibsley Hampshire / 48th FG / 100th FW
348 – Kenley Surrey (London) / 31st FG
349 – Kirton-in-Lindsey Lincolnshire / 1st FG / 91st FSq
350 – Lurgan County Armagh (Northern Ireland) / 63rd Sig Bn
351 – Merston Sussex / 31st FG / 307th FSq
352 – West Hampnett Sussex / 31st FG
353 – Colerne Wiltshire / 1st FG
354 – Iceland / 27th FSq
355 – Coltishall Norfolk / 8th AF
356 – Debden Essex / 4th FG
357 – Duxford Cambridgeshire / 350th FG / 78th FG
358 – Earls Colne Essex / 323rd BG
359 – Great Sampford Essex / 336th FSq
360 – Ouston Durham / VIII FComd
361 – Snailwell Suffolk / 347th FSq / IX AF Service Comd
362 – Ford Sussex / 2nd Det 14th FG
363 – Tangmere Sussex (Chichester) / 8th AF
364 Gloucester Gloucestershire (Holton) / VIII FComd
365 – Halesworth Suffolk / 56th FG
366 – Metfield Suffolk / 353th FG
367 – Kingscliffe Northamptonshire / 20th FG
368 – Wittering Northamptonshire / 63rd FSq / 55th FSq
369 – Martlesham Heath Suffolk / 356th FG
370 – Saffron Walden Essex / 65th FW
371 – Sawston Cambridgeshire / 66th FW
372 – Walcot Hall Northamptonshire (Stamford) / 67th FW
373 – Leiston Suffolk (Theberton) / 358th FG / 357th FG
374 – Bottisham Cambridgeshire / 361st FG
375 – Honington Suffolk / 364th FG
376 – Watton Norfolk / 25th BG / 50th FSq
377 – Wattisham Suffolk / 479th FG
378 – Fowlmere Cambridgeshire / 339th FG
379 – St. Germain-en-Laye France / Hq USSTAFE / Hq ATSCE
380 – Bath Somerset / VIII AF Service Command
381 – Paris France (45 Sharron) / VIII AF Service Command
382 – Sudbury Suffolk (Constitution Hill) / Sig Stor Dpt #3 / BADA
383 – Bolleville France (A-25c) / 302nd Air Trans Wing
384 – Toussus-le-Noble France (A-) / 311th Fer Sq / 67th Tac Recon Group
385 – Le Bourget France (AC) / Hq 28th Reinfor Bn (AAF)
386 – Paris France (1 Rue de Tillsit, Champs Elysees) / Hq 302nd ATW
387 – Northolt Middlesex / 302nd ATW
388 – Marseilles France (Y-14) / PID / 302nd ATW / BADA / VIII AF Serv Comd
389 – Compiegne France / Hq Cont In Dpt / Hq 403rd BAD / 876th A/B AE Bn
390 – Bryanston Square London / HQ USSTAFE (Rear) / HQ Air Technical Services Command Europe / Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe (Rear)
391 – unknown or unattributed
392 – Bois de Boulogne France (Chateau Rothschild) / Hq 70th Reinf Dpt
393 – Verdun France (A-82) / 128th Rep Bn / 362nd FG / 425th NFSq
394 – Le Francport France / 1584th Qm Bn Mob Avn
395 – Rouen France / 6th Port Int Dpt Sq
396 – Fontenay France / 908th Sig Co Dpt
397 – Pierrefonds France / 762nd Chem Dpt Co Avn
398 – Montdidier France / 2498th Qm Truck Co Avn
399 – Fignieres France / 1905th Avn Ord Ammo Co / 1915th Avn Ord Ammo Co
400 – Virton Belgium (Y-41) / 2nd Photo Technical Squadron / 19th Army Air Force Photo Intelligence Detachment / B Company 942nd Aviation Engineers / Topographical Battalion / 26th Stn Complement Squadron
Grumman TBF Avenger ★ The Grumman TBF, or TBM if one of the 7,546 built by General Motors’ Eastern Division, was a three-seat sub stalker and torpedo bomber that scored a big victory in the Battle of Guadalcanal by sinking the 37,000-ton Japanese battleship Hiei. More Avengers were lost than ships destroyed in the Pacific, however, including one TBM that suffered engine failure after catapulting off the light carrier San Jacinto. The pilot, the 20 year-old George H.W. Bush, bailed out.
401 – Haseley Court Oxfordshire / 48th Bomb Dis Sq
402 – Arborfield Cross Berkshire / 9th AF ADA Comd
403 – Kingston Bagpuize Berkshire / 4th Tac AD / Hq IX Engr Comd
404 – Chibolton Hampshire / 5th TAD / 368th FG / IX Troop Carr Comd
405 – Hampstead Borough Middlesex (Elsworth Road (Greater London) – Wadham Gardens, St. Johns Wood) / HQ IX Air Def Comd
406 – Andover Hampshire / 370th FG
407 – Thruxton Hampshire / 366th FG
408 – Beaulieu Hampshire / 365th FG
409 – Uxbridge Buckinghamshire / Det A Hq & Hq Sq 9th AF
410 – Lashenden Kent / 100th FW / 354th FG
411 – High Halden Kent / 58th FG / XIX Tac Air Comd
412 : Headcorn Kent / 362nd FG / 100th FW / XIX Tac Air Comd
413 – Staplehurst Kent/ 363rd FG / XIX Tac Air Comd
414 – Winkton Hampshire / 404th FG / IX Tac Air Comd
415 – Bisterne Close Hampshire / 371st FG / IX Tac Air Comd
416 – Christ Church Hampshire / 405th FG / IX Tac Air Comd
417 – Ashford Kent / 303rd FW / 406th FG / XIX Air Sup Comd
418 – Kingsnorth Kent / 36th FG / XIX Air Sup Comd
419 – Woodchurch Kent / 373rd FG / XIX Air Sup Comd
420 – Popham Hampshire / 926th Sig Bn / IX Engr Comd
421 – Chapel Row Berkshire / 306th FCSq / XXIX Tac Air Comd
422 – Great Barrington Gloucestershire / 925th Engr Avn Regt / IX Engr Comd
423 – Cokethorpe Oxfordshire / 926th Engr Avn Regt / IX Engr Comd
424 – Sole Common Berkshire / 875th A/B Engr Bn / 876th A/B Engr Bn / IX Engr Comd
425 – Scorton Yorkshire / 425th NF Sq / IX Tac Air Comd
426 – Stanlake Park Berkshire / 459th Sig Const Bn / IX Air Sup Comd
427 – Langton Dorset / 447th Sig Const Bn / 448th Sig Const Bn / XIX Tac Air Comd
428 – Coleby Grange Lincolnshire / IX Air Def Comd
429 – Crookham Common Berkshire / 26th Mob R&R Sq / IX AF Service Comd
430 – Drems East Lothian / 75th Stn Comp Sq / IX Scotland Air Def Comd
431 – Dering Woods Kent / 814th Chem Co / 1922nd Ord Ammo Co / IX AFS Comd
432 – Charborough Park Hampshire / 1577th Qm Bn / IX AFS Comd
433 – Bishopstrow Wiltshire / Det B 30 Mob R&R Sq / IX AFS Comd
434 – Chisledon Wiltshire / 834th Engr Avn Bn / IX Engr Comd
435 – Erle Stoke Village Wiltshire / 125th LiSq / 153rd LiSq / 9th AF
436 – Bois Hall Essex / D, 555th SAW Bn / 118th AAAG / IX Air Def Comd
437 – Norman Court Hampshire / 52nd AAA Brig / IX Air Def Comd
438 – Brenzett Kent / Batt C 635th AAA-AW Bn / IX Air Def Comd
439 – Aldergrove County Antrim / 9th AF (North Atlantic Route Northern Ireland Ferrying Terminus, 1940)
440 – Breamore Hampshire / Det YA 21st Weather Sq / Det YA 40th Mob Comm Sq / 9th AF
441 – Bruern Abbey Oxfordshire / Hq 877th A/B Engr Bn / IX Engr Comd
442 – Totton Hampshire / 13th RCO
443 – St. Marys Hill Glamorganshire (Wales) / 9th AF
444 – Stallington Grange Staffordshire / VIII AF Service Comd
445 – Stiffkey Norfolk / Hq 448th AAA-AW Bn / IX Air Def Com
446 – Taunton Somerset / Det 0 Sup Div / Base Air Depot #1
447 – Weston Zoyland Somerset / 442nd TCG / IX TCC
448 – Start Point Devon / 738th SAW Bn / IX Tac Air Comd
449 – Middle Wallop Hampshire / 67th Tac Recon Group / Hq IX Tac Air Comd / XIX Air Sup Comd
450 – Zeals Wiltshire / 32nd Serv Group / 302nd Airdrome Sq
