Chris Frear reveals how the first RAF station to be handed over to the USAAF has been given a new lease of life, decades after it had closed
In 1942, the Friendly Invasion of England by the nascent United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was a trickle destined to become a torrent. Those aircrew, mechanics, and aircraft would need homes. Because airfield production was outrunning aircraft production at that moment in history, many airfields could be made available to the Americans almost overnight, and that story began in North Lincolnshire.
