Ramsey, Winston (Hrsg.) Invasion Airfields then and now

In their forecasts for the first three months following D-Day, the planners plotted the number of the advanced landing grounds that would be required in Normandy to support the Allied air forces up to September 1944. Using maps and aerial photographs, individual sites were surveyed and plans drawn up so that when each location was captured, either US Aviation Engineers, the Royal Engineers or RAF Airfield Construction Wings, could move in without delay to begin work to build them. This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D+90, explaining the methods used to construct them and the units that flew from them. The vast majority of the temporary airstrips have now been returned to the farmland from which they came, but by using engineers' plans from the period and modern aerial photographs, we have portrayed the sites in true "After the Battle" fashion: as they were then and as they are today.

This book describes the history of every airfield that was put into operation by the Allies in the first 90 days after the Normandy landings (D-Day + 90) and explains the construction methods and the units that flew their missions from these airfields. The vast majority of the temporary airstrips have since become farmland again, but by using construction plans from the time and modern aerial photographs, the makers of this work have reconstructed the sites in real life. Historical and current aerial photographs (the exact dimensions of the airfield from 1944 are marked) show the site during and after the war.