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Re: Best sources for Allied bases & unit locations/movements during 1939-40 for EoE Mapping Project
Try the following for the RAF and Dominion Air Forces
Location of airfields and landing grounds
Action Stations Series Vols 1-9 published by Patrick Stephens Ltd (PSL) in the 1980s - list of RAF airfields with Ordnance Survey co-ordinates and a potted history of each airfield in the UK
Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-45 (Omnibus Edn) by Willis and Hollis - listing of each airfield and its location, together with basic details of runways, hangars etc as per 1944 ISBN 0907700128
Squadrons and their locations
Squadrons of the RAF and Commonwealth by J J Halley - published by Air Britain - list of squadrons with equipment and bases and movement dates
RAF Squadrons by Jefford - published by Airlife - similar content to Halley's book - more maps included but layout inferior.
RAF Flying Training and Support Units - Hamlin and Halley - published by Air Britain - all the other units with aircraft that were not a squadron
These will give you dates when squadrons moved between bases and some major detachments. However if you want to get down to the level of on day X, squadron Y sent a detachment of three aircraft to airfield Z you are going to have to read the Operational Record Books
Regards
Martin Giles
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