Research sources and links

In the following lists of books, a unit or airfield may appear in chapters or sections rather than the whole book. Many of these books are out of print. These books are NOT available from BAAC, but the best place to start tracking a title down is through the various online booksellers. Please email us if you know of any books with chapters about specific squadrons, other units or airfields - particularly biographical ones! If you've read any books listed under unknown RAF units, please email which units are mentioned.

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The following list gives details of books which are either entirely about or give reference to specific airfields.

Abbotsinch

  • McCloskey 'Glasgows airports: Renfrew and Abbotsinch' (2009)

Abingdon

  • T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)

Alconbury

  • Alex Duke 'Odd man out' (J&KH Publishing)

Aldeburgh

  • Geoff Dewing 'Air station Aldeburgh' (Historic Military Press ISBN 0 9526416 2 3)
  • G Dewing 'Air station Aldeburgh 1915-19' (Dewing 1998)

Aldergrove

  • T G Docherty 'Ours to hold: RAF Aldergrove at war 1939-45' (2005)
  • G Gardiner Airfield Focus booklet 23 (GMS 1995)
  • Warner & Woods 'Belfast International Airport: aviation at Aldergrove since 1918' (Colourpoint 2001)

Ansty

  • David Williams 'A view of Ansty 1935-82' (RRHT 1998)

Apuldram

  • K Rimell 'Merlin & the Sabre: the story of RAF Apuldram 1943-45' (Private 1992)

Ashbourne

  • Malcolm Giddings 'RAF Ashbourne' (Colerne Debden 1984)
  • Ryan & Percy 'RAF Ashbourne and Darley Moor' (2008)

Ballykelly

  • Airfield Focus booklet 56

Banff

  • Bird 'A separate little war: the Banff Coastal Command strike wing...' (Grub St 2003)

Barford-st-John

  • Pip Beck 'Keeping watch: a WAAF in Bomber Command' (2005)

Bassingbourne

  • J Hamlin & G Simons Airfield Focus booklet 2 (GMS 1992)

Belfast/ Sydenham

  • Guy Warner & Jack Woods 'In the heart of the city' (Adleader 1999 ISBN 0 948124 91 1)

Benson

  • Airfield Focus booklet 29
  • Reginald H Ottaway 'RAF Benson: a dairy of wartime losses' (2010)

Bicester

  • Airfield Focus booklet 38

Biggin Hill

  • Peter Caygill 'The Biggin Hill Wing 1941' (Pen & Sword 2008)
  • Ogley 'Biggin on the bump' (Froglets 1990)
  • Orange 'Johnny Checketts: the road to Biggin Hill' (2009)
  • G Wallace 'RAF Biggin Hill' (Putnam 1957)
  • N Wright 'The Bump' (RAF Biggin Hill 1980)

Binbrook

  • Airfield Focus booklet 41
  • S Scott & J Jackson 'Offence to defence' (GMS 1990)

Bircham Newton

  • P Gunn Airfield Focus Booklet 5 (GMS 1992)
  • P B Gunn 'Bircham Newton: Norfolk airfield at war & peace' (Private 2002)

Blackbushe

  • Belcher 'Blackbushe: from air force to air lines...' (Airfield Focus Special 2009)

Bognor Regis

  • Endacott 'It started with a map' (story of Bognor ALG in WW2) (2006)

Boscombe Down

  • Johnson & Heffernan 'Most secret place: Boscombe Down 1939-45' (Janes 1982)
  • Tim Mason 'The secret years- flight testing at Boscombe Down 1939-45' (1999)
  • Mason 'Cold War Years: flight testing at Boscombe Down 1945-75' (Hikoki 2001)

Bottesford

  • V Holyoak 'On the wings of the morning: RAF Bottesford 1941-45' (Holyoak 1995)

Bottisham

  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 2: RAF Waterbeach & RAF Bottisham' (Private 1987)

Bourne

  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 1: RAF Oakington & RAF Bourne' (Private 1986)

Bournemouth (Hurn)

  • M Pipp Airfield Focus booklet 14 (GMS 1994)

Bovingdon

  • Airfield Focus booklet 80

Bramham Moor

  • Taylor 'RFC Bramham Moor RAF Tadcaster' Airfield Focus booklet 71

Brawdy

  • Phillips 'Brawdy: stronghold in the west' (2009)

Brenzett

  • A Moor 'Mustang Wing: RAF Brenzett 1942-44' (HPC 1999)

Bristol (Whitchurch)

  • B Slade 'Bristol (Whitchurch) airport 1930-57' Slade c1997)
  • Ken Wakefield 'Somewhere in the West Country' (Crecy Publishing ISBN 0-947554-65-3)

Brize Norton

  • Bond 'History of RAF Brize Norton' (Private 1980)
  • Peter Davis 'Brize Norton' (Airfield Focus Special 2005)
  • W O Pereira 'RAF Brize Norton' (PSL 1993)

Brooklands

  • Johnson 'Wings over Brooklands' (Whittet 1981)

Broxbourne

  • Kimm 'Wings over Nazeing: illustrated history of Broxbourne aerodrome 1929-45' (Private)

Burn

  • Cawdron 'Based at Burn - 578 Sqn airmen recall...' 1995
  • Cawdron 'Based at Burn - biography of an outstaning airman and diary of 578 bomber squadron' (Private 2001)
  • Tom Sawyer 'Only owls & bloody fools fly at night'

Burnaston

  • M Giddings 'Burnaston story' (Colerne Debden 1991)

Burtonwood

  • A P Ferguson 'RAF Burtonwood' (Airfield 1989)

Calshot

  • D C T Bennett 'Pathfinder' (Goodall Publications 1958/88)
  • Chaz Bowyer 'RAF Calshot 1913-61' (Frank Smith Maritime Aviation Books, Newcastle)

Carew

  • D Brock 'Wings over Carew: RAF Carew Cheriton 1939-45 & RNAS Pembroke/ Milton 1915-20' (Private 1989)

Castle Camps

  • J Hamlin & R Pearson 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 3: RAF Wratting Common & RAF Castle Camps' (Private 1989)

Castle Donnington

  • G Wilkes 'East Midlands Airport in wartime' (Pentland 1997)

Charterhall

  • J B Thompson 'Charterhall Story: Wartime work of a Borders airfield' (Air Research 1989)
  • Jack Thompson 'RAF Charterhall' (Crecy)

Chelveston

  • Smith 'Chelveston: one name, two airfields' (Airfield Focus Special)

Chilbolton

  • E M Lockyer 'Memories of Chilbolton airfield 1940-41' (Lockyer 1993)
  • E M Lockyer 'English airfield - Chilbolton memories 1941-45' (Lockyer 1995)

Chipping Warden

  • D Reader 'A village in wartime: the story of RAF Chipping Warden' (1995)

Chivenor

  • E F Goodwin 'Some were lucky'
  • D Watkins 'RAF Chivenor in old photographs' (Sutton 1995)
  • Watkins 'RAF Chivenor' (Universal 1998)

Church Broughton

  • Malcolm Giddings 'Bomber base: a history of RAF Lichfield & Church Broughton' (Colerne Debden 1986)

Church Fenton

  • Cownie 'History of RAF Church Fenton 1937-87' (RAF 1987)
  • Mason 'Fighting Church Fenton: a detailed history 1937-89' (Pegasus 1989)

Coltishall

  • RAF Coltishall: a brief illustrated history' (c1968)
  • Jennings 'RAF Coltishall fighter station' (2008)
  • S Scott Airfield Focus booklet 22 (GMS 1995)

Coningsby

  • S Scott Airfield Focus booklet 20 (GMS 1995)
  • Sylvia Pickering 'Tales of a Bomber Command WAAF'

Coolham

  • P Hamlin & A Davis 'Coolham airfield remembered' (Hamlin 1996)

Cosford

  • Brew 'RAF Cosford - in old photos' (Sutton 1995)
  • Brew 'RAF Cosford' (2009)
  • A E Joyner 'RAF Cosford, the war years' (Private 1994)

Cottesmore

  • Sylvia Pickering 'Tales of a Bomber Command WAAF'
  • Rennison 'Wings over Rutland: a history of Cottesmore, Woolfox Lodge & North Luffenham' (Spiegl 1980)
  • N J Robertson & J G Tallis 'Green fields and the sky: history of RAF Cottesmore' (GMS 1991)

Crail

  • Airfield Focus special (GMS 2003)

Cranwell

  • Green & Hodgson 'Cranwell: RNAS & RAF photographs' (Midland 1993)
  • Haslam E B 'History of RAF Cranwell' (HMSO 1982)
  • F Whitehouse 'RAF Cranwell' (RAF Cranwell apprentices assoc 1988)

Croft

  • Todd 'Pilgramages of Grace: a history of Croft aerodrome' (Croft 1993)

Darley Moor

  • Noel Ryan & Chris Percy 'A tale of two airfields: RAF Ashbourne and RAF Darley Moor' (Wild Track Publishing 2008)

Deenethorpe

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 37 (GMS 1999)

Docking

  • Jacklin 'Up in all weather: the story of RAF Docking' (2010)

Donibristle

  • Airfield Focus booklet 52

Downham Market

  • J B Hilling 'Strike hard - a bomber airfield at war' (Sutton 1995)
  • Hilling 'Strike Hard - a bomber airfield at war: RAF Downham Market and its squadrons' (Budding 1997)

Drem

  • Fife 'Drem: Scotlands Spitfire airfield' (Airfield Focus Booklet Special 2008)
  • G J F Simpson 'Story of Drem airfield' (Gullane & Dirleton HS 2003)

Driffield

  • Tom Sawyer 'Only owls & bloody fools fly at night'
  • Geoff Simmons & Barry Abraham 'Strong foundations: Driffields aerodrome 1917-2000'

Dundonald

  • Airfield Focus booklet 35

Dunholme Lodge

  • John Ward 'The Dunholme Lodgers' 2005

Dunino

  • Airfield Focus special (GMS 2003)

Dunsfold

  • P M McCue 'Dunsfold: Surrey's most secret airfield 1942-92' (Air Research 1992)

Duxford

  • Duxford Diary 1942-45' (Duxford Aviation Society 1989)
  • Bowman 'Duxford and the big wings 1940-45' (2009)
  • A Height Airfield Focus booklet no 1 (GMS 1992)
  • Roberts 'Duxford to Karachi: an RAF armourers war'
  • Sarkar 'Duxford 1940: a Battle of Britain base at war' (Photo album) (2009)
  • Smith 'RAF Duxford: a history in photographs from 1917 to the present day' (2006, 2009)

East Kirkby

  • Copeman 'Silksheen - history of East Kirkby airfield' (Midland Counties 1989)
  • D Hawker DFC 'With luck to spare' (2004)

East Moor

  • Brian Shields 'The East Moor experience 1942-46' (Compaid Graphics 1998)

Edgehill

  • Kaye 'Story of RAF Edgehill' (Self Publishing 1990)

Elsham Wolds

  • Don Charlwood 'No moon tonight' (Burgewood Books 2006)
  • D Charlwood 'Journeys into night' (Burgewood Books 2006)

Elstree

  • Riding/ Peerles 'Elstree Aerodrome: the past in pictures' (2004)

Elvington

  • Louis Bourgain 'Halifax for Liberte' (Compaid Graphics 1999 ISBN 1 900604 07 8)
  • Dickie Parfitt 'Bombs gone! An Elvington lads war'
  • Mike Usherwood 'The RAF Pocklington & RAF Elvington war diaries'

Evanton

  • J Hughes Airfield Focus booklet 16 (GMS 1994)

Exeter

  • Airfield Focus booklet 39

Farnborough

  • Cooper 'Farnborough: 100 years of British aviation' (2006)
  • Cooper 'Farnborough and the Fleet Air Arm' (2008)
  • Dennis 'Royal Aircraft Establishment at War' (2008)
  • Gardner 'Aerial refuelling at Farnborough: RAE experiments 1924-37' (Air Britain 1999)
  • Kent 'One of the Few' (Kent was a test pilot at Farnborough pre 1941) (2008)
  • Walker 'Early aviation at Farnborough: the first aeroplanes' (Macdonald 1974)

Felixstowe

  • Kinsey 'Seaplanes - Felixstowe: the story of the air station 1913-63' (Terrence Dalton 1978)

Finningley

  • History of RAF Finningley 1936-78' (RAF 1978)
  • K Delve 'History of RAF Finningley' (Tri-Service 1992)
  • K Delve Airfield Focus booklet 64 (GMS 2004)

Fylingdales

  • B Wilson 'History of RAF Fylingdales' (RAF 1983)

Gamston

  • Taylor 'History of RAF stations Ossington & Gamston' (1995)

Glatton / Conington

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 50 (GMS 2002)

Gosport

  • F D Tedrey 'Pioneer Pilot' (RFC) (Peter Davies 1976)

Grafton Underwood

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 44 (GMS 2001)

Grangemouth

  • Bailey 'Grangemouth: from airlines to air cadets' (2006)

Great Massingham

  • P B Gunn 'RAF Gt Massingham: a Norfolk airfield at war 1940-45' (Gunn 1990)

Great Yarmouth

  • Gamble 'The story of a North Sea air station' Gt Yarmouth 1914-18) (Spearman 1967)

Grimsby / Waltham

  • Ian Reid 'Lancaster Operations - One Squadrons contribution to the bomber offensive' (ISBN 0-9544516-0-0)
  • Ian Reid 'Lancaster Operations (RAF Station Grimsby)' (Thomas 2003)
  • Ian Reid 'To fly over Waltham' (Ashridge Press 1997 ISBN 1 901214 10 9)

Grove

  • T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
  • D Summers 'Short history of Grove airfield 1941-96' (Ridgeway 1992)

Halfpenny Green / Wolverhampton

  • N Welch Airfield Focus booklet 67

Halton

  • Tunbridge P 'History of RAF Halton' (Buckland 1995)

Hardwick

  • D White Airfield Focus booklet 60 (GMS 2003)

Harrington

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 59 (GMS 2003)

Harrowbeer

  • Teague 'History of RAF Station Harrowbeer 1944-46' (Teague 1984)

Hatfield

  • Airfield Focus booklet 45

Hawarden

  • D Smith 'Hawarden: a Welsh airfield 1939-79' (Private c1980)

Hawkinge

  • R S Humphreys 'RAF Hawkinge in old photographs' (Sutton 1991)

Hednesford

  • Whitehouse 'Kitbag hill: the story of RAF Hednesford' (Whitehouse 1987)

Hemswell

  • Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)

Hendon

  • D Oliver 'Hendon aerodrome - a history' (Airlife 1994)
  • G Simons Airfield Focus booklet 68 (GMS 2004)

Henlow

  • 'History of RAF Henlow' (RAF Henlow c1975)

Heston

  • Airfield Focus booklet 24

Hethel

  • B Bowman Airfield Focus booklet 53 (GMS 2002)

Honeybourne

  • Brian Kedward 'Angry Skies across the vale' (B Kedward)

Honington

  • Levy 'The dark side of the sky'

Horham

  • J Cooper 'We'll meet again: the story of Horham airfield 1939-92' (Framlingham College c1992)

Hornchurch

  • Richard C Smith 'Hornchurch Scramble - 1915 to 1940' (Grub Street)
  • Richard C Smith 'Hornchurch Offensive - 1941 to 1962' (Grub Street)
  • Richard C Smith 'Hornchurch Eagles' (Grub Street)
  • Richard C Smith 'Second to None: pictorial history of Hornchurch aerodrome 1915-1962' (Grub Street 2004)
  • H Sutton 'History of RAF Hornchurch 1915-41' (RAF 1953)
  • Sutton 'Raiders approach: the fighting tradition of RAF station Hornchurch and Suttons Farm' (Gale & Polden 1956)

Horsham St Faith / Norwich Airport

  • H Fairhead & B Collis Airfield Focus booklet 4 (GMS 1992)

Hunsdon

  • F Hitching & V Hunsdon 'RAF at Hunsdon 1941-45' (LHS 1990)

Ibsley

  • Sid Deedman 'RAF Ibsley 1941-47' (A E Baker 1999 ISBN 1 900181 02 9)

Ilford

  • 'Over here and over there: Ilford aerodrome and airmen in the Great War 1914-18'

Invergordon

  • Airfield Focus booklet 31

Inverness / Longman

  • J Paterson Airfield Focus booklet 19 (GMS 1994)

Kenley

  • Barr 'Kenley Memories (WAAF Officer)' Private 1990
  • P Flint 'RAF Kenley 1917-1994' (Dalton 1985)

Kimbolton

  • Taylor Airfield Focus booklet 72

Kings Cliffe

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 66 (GMS 2004)

Kinloss

  • RAF Kinloss' (Constitutional Press c1971)
  • C Ashworth Airfield Focus booklet 8 (GMS 1992)
  • Jim Hughes 'Power to the hunter: a history of RAF Kinloss' (Hughes 1995)

Langar

  • B Goodwin & R Glynne-Owen '207 Sqn RAF Langar 1942-43' (Quacks 1994)

Langham

  • L Bartram 'RAF Langham 1940-58: a brief history with RAF Weybourne' (Private c1997)

Leconfield

  • Bill Norman 'No.640 (Halifax) Sqn RAF Leconfield'
  • Bill Norman 'Halifax Squadron: the wartime bombing operations of 640 Sqn' (2005)

Leeming

  • 75 Glorious years - history of 25 Sqn Leeming' (Adams 1990)
  • D C T Bennett 'Pathfinder' (Goodall Publications 1958/88)
  • P Coupland 'Straight and true: history of RAF Leeming' (Leo Cooper 1997)

Lichfield

  • D Charlwood 'No moon tonight' (Burgewood Books 2006)
  • D Charlwood 'Journeys into night' (Burgewood Books 2006)
  • Malcolm Giddings 'Bomber base: a history of RAF Lichfield & Church Broughton' (Colerne Debden 1986)

Lilbourne

  • E Travers 'Cross Country' (some WW1 anecdotes: SE5As etc) (Hothersall & Travers 1990)

Linton-on-Ouse

  • P D Mason 'Wings over Linton: RAF Linton-on-Ouse 1937-94' (Fenton Enterprises 1994)

Lisset

  • Tom Sawyer 'Only owls & bloody fools fly at night'

Little Rissington

  • Bagshaw et al 'RAF Little Rissington: the Central Flying School years 1946-76' (Pen & Sword 2006)

Little Staughton

  • Alex Duke 'Odd man out' (J&KH Publishing)

Llanbedr

  • Mills 'Target rolling: a history of Llanbedr airfield' (Midland Counties 2002)

Llandwrog

  • Doylerush 'Legend of Llandwrog ' (Midland 1994)

Long Marston

  • Brian Kedward 'Angry Skies across the vale' (B Kedward)

Longside

  • Airfield Focus booklet 61

Lossiemouth

  • J Hughes Airfield Focus booklet 11 (GMS 1993)

Ludford Magna

  • S Scott Airfield focus 32 (GMS 1998)

Ludham

  • A Foster Airfield Focus booklet 46 (GMS 2001)

Lulsgate Bottom

  • I James 'Story of RAF Lulsgate Bottom' (Redcliffe 1989)

Luton

  • Simons Airfield Focus booklet 76 (2009)

Lyme Regis

  • K Rimmel 'RAF Lyme Regis: air sea rescue base 1937-64) (Private)

Lyneham

  • W O Pereira 'RAF Lyneham' (Haynes 1990)

Manston

  • RAF Manston in old photographs' (Sutton 1994; Universal 1998)
  • 'RAF Manston in old photographs: second selection' (Sutton 1994)
  • Fraser 'History of RAF Manston' (1969)
  • R Stockman 'The history of RAF Manston' (RAF Manston 1969, 1986)

Marham

  • Bowman 'RAF Marham: bomber station' (2008)
  • W Corser Airfield Focus booklet 18 (GMS 1994)
  • K Delve 'RAF Marham - operational history from 1916' (PSL 1995)
  • D Turner 'Two west Norfolk airfields in the Great War: Narborough & Marham' (PSL 1995)

Marston Moor

  • T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)

Martlesham Heath

  • G Kinsey 'Martlesham Heath: The story of the RAF station 1917-73' (Terrence Dalton 1975, 1979)
  • Cecil Lewis 'Sagittarius Rising' (RFC 1916) (Peter Davies 1936)
  • Mason 'British Flight Testing: Martlesham Heath 1920-39' (Putnam 1993)

Matlaske

  • L Bartram 'RAF Matlaske 1940-45: a brief history' (Private c1996)

Meir

  • William Cooke 'Wings over Meir' (Amberley 2011)
  • Airfield Focus booklet 34

Mepal

  • M Chorlton Airfield Focus booklet 47 (Mepal & Witchford) (GMS 2001)
  • Harry Yates 'Luck and a Lancaster'

Metheringham

  • R Bailey 'In the middle of nowhere: RAF Metheringham' (Tucann 1999)

Middleton St George

  • Tweddle 'Into the night sky: RAF Middleton St George - a bomber airfield at war' (Sutton 2007)

Mildenhall

  • C Dring 'History of RAF Mildenhall' (Mildenhall Museum 1980)

Milfield

  • A Evans 'Milfield, not just an airfield' (Oxford Instant 1994)

Molesworth

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 40 (GMS 2000)

Montrose

  • 'Montrose airfield from 1913' (Montrose museum trust 1993)

Moreton-in-Marsh

  • J Hamlin & G Tyack 'RAF Moreton-in-Marsh' (Tyack 1995)

Mount Batten

  • Teague 'Mount Batten: flying boat base 1913-86' (Teague 1986)

Newmarket

  • Hamlin 'RAF at Newmarket 1939-47' (Hamlin 1985)
  • J Hamlin 'RAF at Newmarket and Snailwell: 2nd ed with supplemental list of aircraft' (Hamlin)

Norborough

  • D Turner 'Two west Norfolk airfields in the Great War: Narborough & Marham' (PSL 1995)
  • Narborough Airfield Research Group 'The Great Government Aerodrome: RFC Narborough' (NARG 2000)

North Coates

  • B Taylor Airfield Focus booklet 12 (GMS 1993)

North Luffenham

  • B Harrison Airfield Focus booklet 54 (GMS 2002)
  • Rennison 'Wings over Rutland: a history of Cottesmore, Woolfox Lodge & North Luffenham' (Spiegl 1980)

North Weald

  • D C T Bennett 'Pathfinder' (Goodall Publications 1958/88)
  • Dave Eade 'RAF North Weald a pictorial history' (2011)
  • F Hitchcock 'History of the RAF at North Weald' (Private c1981)
  • Barry Sutton 'Fighter Boy: life as a Battle of Britain pilot' (2010)

North Witham

  • M Chorlton 'Paths in the woods: RAF North Witham' (Old Forge 2003)

Northolt

  • Norris & Haywood 'A short history of RAF Northolt' (Chiltern Aviation Society 1980)

Nuthampstead

  • Airfield Focus booklet 82 (circa 2010)

Oakington

  • J Hamlin Airfield Focus booklet 10 (GMS 1993)
  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 1: RAF Oakington & RAF Bourne' (Private 1986)
  • J Hamlin 'By day and by night: the story of RAF Oakington' (2009)
  • David Clark 'A-Apple'

Oban

  • N Owen & P Jones Airfield Focus booklet 25 (GMS 1996)

Old Warden

  • Grigg Airfield Focus booklet 84 (2010)

Ossington

  • Taylor 'History of RAF stations Ossington & Gamston' (1995)

Panshanger

  • M Packham 'Panshangar aerodrome' (Tempus 2006)

Pembroke Dock

  • D C T Bennett 'Pathfinder' (Goodall Publications 1958/88)
  • D Brock 'Wings over Carew: RAF Carew Cheriton 1939-45 & RNAS Pembroke/ Milton 1915-20' (Private 1989)
  • J Evans 'Flying Boat Haven: RAF Pembroke Dock' (Paterchurch 1994)

Perranporth

  • F Andrew 'History of RAF Perranporth 1941-45' (Private 2000)

Pershore

  • Glynn Warren 'RAF Pershore - a history' (Enthusiasts pub 1982)

Peterborough

  • G Simons 'Wings over Westwood: story of RAF Peterborough' (GMS 1989)
  • G Simons Airfield Focus booklet 26 (GMS 1996)

Pocklington

  • Mike Usherwood 'War diary of RAF Pocklington' (Compaid Graphics 1993)
  • Mike Usherwood 'The RAF Pocklington & RAF Elvington war diaries'

Poddington

  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 63 (GMS 2003)

Polebrook

  • C N Stevens 'An innocent at Polebrook' (2004)
  • J Smith Airfield Focus booklet 48 (GMS 2001)

Portreath

  • Bridge 'Story of RAF Portreath 1940-45' (Cambourne 1994)

Prestwick

  • Airfield Focus booklet 42

Rackheath

  • D White Airfield Focus booklet 55 (GMS 2002)

Raydon

  • Airfield Focus booklet 81
  • Cross 'Raydon airfield: fighter station to farmland' (Reeves c1975)

Renfrew

  • McCloskey 'Glasgow's airports: Renfrew and Abbotsinch' (2009)

Riccall

  • Lunn & Arbon 'Aircraft down III: RAF Riccall & 1658 HCU' (Hardwick 1989)

Ringway / Manchester Airport

  • P Hearne 'Flying Rebel' (G/C L Strange) (HMSO 1994)
  • R Scholefield Airfield Focus booklet 6 (GMS 1992)

Rivenhall

  • B A Stait 'History of Rivenhall airfield' (Stait 1984)

Rochester

  • J Preston & F Moulton 'Brief history of Rochester airport' (Private 1992)

Rochford / Southend Airport

  • Hartley Airfield Focus booklet 75

Sawbridge

  • P Doyle 'Where the Lysanders were: the story of Sawbridge's airfields' (Forward Airfield 1995)

Scampton

  • C Jefford 'History of RAF Scampton 1917-68' (Delta Magazine 1968)
  • S Scott Airfield Focus booklet 15 (GMS 1994)

Scatsca

  • T Mayes 'History of Scatsca airfield Shetland' (Mayes 1997)

Sculthorpe

  • J Baldwin 'RAF Sculthorpe: 50 years' (Baldwin 1999)

Sealand

  • A Ferguson 'History of RAF Sealand' (Merseyside Aviation Society 1978)

Shawbury

  • Ferguson 'History of RAF Shawbury' (MAS 1977)

Sherburn

  • Facer 'Flying at Sherburn: the story of a Yorkshire airfield' (Silver Quill 1998)

Shoreham

  • Webb & Bird 'Shoreham airport Sussex' (Cirrus 1996)

Snailwell

  • Hamlin 'RAF at Newmarket 1939-47' includes Snailwell (Hamlin 1985)
  • J Hamlin 'RAF at Newmarket and Snailwell: 2nd ed with supplemental list of aircraft' (Hamlin)

Snaith

  • Keith S Ford 'Snaith days: life with 51 Sqn 1942-45'
  • R Ounsley 'Snaith Knights: tales of Bomber Command vol 2' (Private 2003)

Snetterton Heath

  • Simons Airfield Focus booklet 79

Snitterfield

  • Brian Howett 'Wings over Snitterfield' (Howett 1993)

South Witham

  • M Chorlton 'Danger area: the complete history of RAF South Witham 100 Maintenance Unit' (Old Forge 2003)

Spanhoe

  • John N Smith Airfield Focus booklet No.69

Spittlegate

  • G Gardiner Airfield Focus booklet 17 (GMS 1994)

St Eval

  • C Ashworth Airfield Focus booklet 7 (GMS 1992)
  • R Dunstan 'My life with RAF St Eval' (Private 1999)
  • J Shapland 'Memories Linger On: collection of reminiscences of wartime RAF St Eval' (Shapland 1989)

St Mawgan

  • Airfield Focus booklet 36
  • K A Saunders 'RAF St Mawgan in old photos' (Sutton 1995)

Steeple Morden

  • Graham Simons Airfield Focus booklet 74
  • K Wells 'Village airfield at war: RAF Steeple Morden 1939-43' (Egon 1993)
  • K Wells 'Wimpeys to Mustangs: history of Steeple Morden airfield 1940-45' (East Anglia Books 1999)

Stradishall

  • Adams & Whitehouse 'RAF Stradishall 1938-70' (Square One 1996)

Sullom Voe

  • Schofield/ Conyers Nesbit 'Arctic airmen' (2005)
  • P Ward Airfield Focus booklet 13 (GMS 1994)

Sutton Bridge

  • Alistair Goodrum 'Combat ready' (GMS Enterprises 1999 ISBN 1 870384 60 1)
  • A Goodrum Airfield Focus booklet 65 (GMS 2004)

Suttons Farm

  • Sutton 'Raiders approach: the fighting tradition of RAF station Hornchurch and Suttons Farm' (Gale & Polden 1956)

Swanton Morley

  • A James 'RAF Swanton Morley: the first 50 years 1940-90' (Private 1990)
  • S Pope Airfield Focus booklet 9 (GMS 1993)
  • M W Bowman 'Low level from Swanton: Swanton Morley from WW2 to present' (Air Research 1995)

Swinderby

  • Scott 'Airfield focus 28' (GMS 1997)

Sywell

  • Paul 'Sywell: the story of an English aerodrome 1928-78' (Sywell aerodrome 1978)

Tadcaster

  • Taylor 'RFC Bramham Moor RAF Tadcaster' Airfield Focus booklet 71

Tangmere

  • Richard Pike 'Beaufighter ace: night fighter career of ... Sir Thomas Pike' (Beaufighters at Tangmere 1941) (2005)
  • A Saunders 'RAF Tangmere in old photographs' (Sutton 1992)
  • A Saunders 'RAF Tangmere revisited' (Sutton 1998)

Tempsford

  • F Clark 'Agents by Moonlight' (Tempus 1999)
  • K Merrick 'Flights of the forgotten' (Arms & Armour Press)
  • B O'Connor 'RAF Tempsford: Churchill's most secret airfield' (2010)
  • Hugh Verity 'We landed by moonlight'

Thornaby

  • D Brown 'Thornaby aerodrome and wartime memories' (Private 1992)

Thorpe Abbots

  • M Bowman Airfield Focus booklet 62 (GMS 2003)

Throwley

  • Airfield Focus booklet 58
  • Moor 'Kents forgotten airfield: Throwley 1917-19' (2007)

Thurleigh

  • Smith 'Thurleigh and Twinwood Farm' (Airfield Focus Special 2008)

Tibbenham

  • D White Airfield Focus booklet 57 (GMS 2003)

Tollerton

  • Fisher et al 'Tollerton: an airfield for Nottingham 1929 to 2007' (Keyworth Historical Society 2008)

Twinwood Farm

  • Smith 'Thurleigh and Twinwood Farm' (Airfield Focus Special 2008)

Upavon

  • G W Callender 'War in an open cockpit' (1918) (WW1 Aero 1978)
  • Cecil Lewis 'Sagittarius Rising' (RFC 1916) (Peter Davies 1936)

Upper Heyford

  • Airfield Focus booklet 43
  • Pip Beck 'Keeping watch: a WAAF in Bomber Command' (2005)

Upwood

  • Alex Duke 'Odd man out' (J&KH Publishing)
  • J Hamlin Airfield Focus booklet 70
  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 4: RAF Upwood & RAF Warboys' (Private 1990)
  • T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (8 Group Path Finder Force Training Unit) (Scotland 2007)

Usworth / Sunderland

  • Charles Airfield Focus 78

Waddington

  • Pip Beck 'Keeping watch: a WAAF in Bomber Command' (2005)
  • Easton 'We flew old Fred - the Fox: Lancaster DV372' (Hudson 1997, to be reprinted 2006)
  • Leach 'An illustrated history of RAF Waddington: Pt 1 1916-1945' (2005)
  • J F Hamlin 'For faith and freedom: RAF Waddington' (GMS 1996)

Wantage

  • T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)

Warboys

  • Alex Duke 'Odd man out' (J&KH Publishing)
  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 4: RAF Upwood & RAF Warboys' (Private 1990)
  • T G Mahaddie 'Hamish' (Autobiographical; late WW2) (Ian Allen 1989)
  • H Sheldon 'Warboys at war 1939-43' (Witch Publishing 1996)
  • H Sheldon 'Warboys: witches to wings' (Witch Publishing 1998)

Warmwell

  • A Cooke Airfield Focus booklet 21 (GMS 1995)

Waterbeach

  • Harry Dison 'Some of the story of 514 Sqn...' (Self published)
  • J Hamlin 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 2: RAF Waterbeach & RAF Bottisham' (Private 1987)

Wattisham

  • Eade 'RAF Wattisham: a pictorial history' (2008)
  • M Simpson & P Porter Airfield Focus booklet 3 (GMS 1992)

Watton

  • G Gardiner Airfield Focus booklet 30 (GMS 1996)

Wellesbourne

  • J Pratley 'Wings over Wellesbourne: Vol.1 1940-42'
  • J Pratley 'Wings over Wellesbourne: Vol.2 1943 - 2013' (2013)

West Malling

  • Peter Hall 'By day and by night' (Foxed & bound bookshop 1999 ISBN 0 9533594 0 9)

Westley

  • F Whitnall 'Wings over Westley: story of a Suffolk airfield' (Whitnall 2004)

Weston on the Green

  • Davis 'Weston on the Green' (Airfield Focus booklet 73, 2008)

White Waltham

  • D Tomlinson 'A village at war: White Waltham 1939-45' (Ameliel Press 2002)

Wickenby

  • Currie 'Lancaster Target' (2005)
  • Dennis West 'To strive & not to yield'

Wing

  • Michael Warth 'Wings over Wing' (The Book Castle, Dunstable ISBN 1 903747 05 8)

Winthorpe

  • W Taylor 'RAF Winthorpe 1940-45' (Control Column 1984)

Witchford

  • Airfield Focus booklet (Mepal & Witchford)

Withorpe

  • W Taylor 'RAF Withorpe: photographic memories and anecdotes 1940-45' (Private 1984)
  • W Taylor 'RAF Withorpe: photographic memories and anecdotes 1940-45 Vol II' (Private 1984)

Witney

  • Airfield Focus booklet 49

Wittering

  • 'History of RAF Wittering: 1916-95' (RAF 1995)

Woodhall Spa

  • N Press 'Into thin air: RAF Woodhall Spa 1941-45' (Tucann 2001)

Woodvale

  • A Ferguson 'History of RAF Woodvale' (Merseyside Aviation Society 1980)
  • A P Ferguson 'RAF Woodvale' (Airfield Publications 1991)

Woolfox Lodge

  • M Chorlton Airfield Focus booklet 51 (GMS 2002)
  • Rennison 'Wings over Rutland: a history of Cottesmore, Woolfox Lodge & North Luffenham' (Spiegl 1980)

Wratting Common

  • J Hamlin & R Pearson 'RAF in Cambridgeshire pt 3: RAF Wratting Common & RAF Castle Camps' (Private 1989)

Wyton

  • S Peach 'Pathfinder station: a history of Wyton airfield' (RAF 1983)

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