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Stoke-on-Trent - Airfields
« on: Friday 17 August 07 22:32 BST (UK) »
Were there any airfields near to Stoke-on-Trent?  Also were any of these used by the American Air Force.  Is anything know of plane crashes in the area?

I apologise for the rather vague questions but I am trying to help out a friend who is to visit Stoke shortly for the first time since he was evacuated there. 

Any information provided will be gratefull received and passed on.

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Re: Stoke-on-Trent - Airfields
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 18 August 07 00:05 BST (UK) »
Google this -

' RAF airfield Stoke-on-Trent '

Many sites to choose from.

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Re: Stoke-on-Trent - Airfields
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 18 August 07 14:43 BST (UK) »
Someone just posted this site which has lots of information:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~herz/trace/index.htm
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Stoke-on-Trent - Airfields
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 18 August 07 16:37 BST (UK) »
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Stoke-on-Trent - Airfields
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 18 August 07 20:58 BST (UK) »
To:  EDO/aghadowey/scrimnet

Thank you all for your very prompt responses.  I have forwarded them to my friend.  I imagine the various references will keep him quite busy prior to his visit to Stoke.

Wyndham
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