This series of books examines Britains military airfields region by region, covering military aviation from WWI to the present day. There have been two main periods of airfield construction – WWI, when a large number of landing grounds and aerodromes were built for either defensive purposes or training, the majority of offensive operations taking place from airfields in France, and WWII, when some parts of England housed hundreds of airfields, many of which were ‘taking the war to the enemy’ on a daily basis. The highpoint of airfields in terms of numbers came in the latter months of 1944, when Britain housed some1000 airfields and over 30000 aircraft, plus a significant number of small or temporary landing strips. This series is not a detailed history of every airfield but rather a user friendly reference, which, for each airfield, comprises an outline of its history along with maps, plans, photographs and data tables containing information such as location, units and memorials. Commercial publishing realities mean that even the entries for major airfields have had to be restricted in size and all airfields and landing strips that had no recorded military usage had been excluded.