Exeter Airport and D-Day, 75 Years Ago
Ahead of D-Day Exeter Airport was taken over by the US 9th Air Force and had become Station 463 for the United States 440th Troop Carrier Group. Seventy C-47As and seventy CG-4 gliders had arrived in preparation for D-Day. There was insufficient hard standing on the three asphalt runways and taxiways laid in July 1940 […]
