Shropshire Airfields Through Time by Alec Brew

Shropshire Airfields Through Time by Alec Brew

Though there were airfields in Shropshire during the First World War, at Shawbury, Tern Hill and Monkmoor, it was in the late 1930s that a massive building programme began to dot the county with new RAF airfields, mostly for training purposes, until there were over sixteen – in some cases they were so close together that their circuits overlapped. Since the Second World War the number has fallen away, but Shawbury, Tern Hill, Cosford and little Chetwynd are still used by the RAF, and Sleap has been revived for general aviation. In most cases the others have returned to agriculture and a few to industry, with derelict control towers and other iconic buildings remaining as lost sentinels of the days when young men trained to carry the fight into the dark skies of Germany.

Alec Brew is curator of the Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre in Wolverhampton. He also writes for the Wolverhampton Chronicle.

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ISBN 13	9781445696294
ISBN 10	1445696290
Titel	Shropshire Airfields Through Time
Autor	Alec Brew
Serie	Through Time
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-12-15
Seitenanzahl	96
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