Action Stations 9: Central, South and South East

This penultimate volume in PSL's bestselling Action Stations series is undoubtedly one for which many people have been waiting, covering as it does, not only the principal Battle of Britain airfields but also the many Advanced Landing Grounds which were prepared for the invasion of Normandy. Airfields such as Manston (which the author first saw from the front turret of a Wellington in 1944), Eastchurch, Eastleigh, Hawkinge, Lympne and Tangmere thus play an inevitably prominent role in this volume but, because of the large, crescent-shaped area it covers, there are many other famous airfields with long and fascinating histories included.
Everyone has heard of Greenham Common, of course, but to prove that little changes, in 1914 Kingsnorth, in Kent, was a target for the Suffragettes! Aldermaston and Blackbushe, Detling and Dunsfold, Farnborough and Ford, Gosport, Lasham and Lee-on-Solent, Lydd and Odiham, Thorney Island and Westhampnett are other names which spring immediately to mind, all very much 'action stations' by anyone's standards.
Illustrated with photographs and maps, and organised in the series style with map directions for finding each airfield, whether still operational or disused, and with introductory chapters and an index, Action Stations 9 easily maintains the enviable reputation established by the preceding volumes in this outstanding series.
Chris Ashworth, now retired, was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force who has made an intensive study of the airfields in the south of the country and is also the author of Action Stations 5: Military Airfields of the South-West.


by Chris Ashworth
Published by Patrick Stephens Ltd 1985 1st edn. 313pp boards slightly bowed otherwise mint, d/j fine





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