Can anyone tell me if there is any site etc that I can look at to see where the nearest enemy or allied airfield was?
I would search for WW2 Luftwaffe airfields in France....generally the Luftwaffe utilised existing French Air Force airfields with some improved during the occupation...there is one with a Danish author who is protecting his copyright. Post D Day.... search for Continental airfields used by the US and British which will pick up the Luftwaffe airfield usage as above plus the landing strips laid down for the RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force and the USAAF 9th Air Force.There used to be an excellent document available on this which I have "lost" but it appears to have disappeared behind a paywall. However this information looks to be helpful. Advanced Landing Ground - Wikipedia
Larry deZeng has made one of his projects free for all on the web which covers Luftwaffe airfields. See at the link for extensive details and many countries, including France.. Luftwaffe Airfields 1935 - 1945
"Blanket permission is granted by the author to researchers to extract information from this publication for their personal use in accordance with the generally accepted definition of fair use laws" This is the website that it is available at, as well as his Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries... The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
I am looking at the second paragraph, the leading paragraph is as you say is extract information only and not for example, use it as a stored reference. Still it is very informative. Similar information regarding RAF airfield usage throughout the world is also contained within Jefford's RAF Squadrons which denotes squadrons in residence together with detachments and aircraft types on charge at the time.
I believe you can store it in your own computer files for your own personal use. I would say that the second paragraph refers to storing it in a retrieval system that allows others to access it (something like Dropbox or another Cloud storage sort of thing).
I've just received a brochure from After The Battle and the next book they will release will be Invasion Airfields Then & Now which it states will feature every Allied airfield that was operational up to D+90.
48848872 US Army Air Forces Continental Airfields ETO D Day to v E Day 1988 | United States Army Air Forces | Air Forces This document appears to have been put behind a paywall which is a pity for any researchers....it was freely available on the internet for some years....it disappeared off my favourites at the same time which I think was when the data source was amended. It is on Scribd with the restrictions as noted. Cannot understand how the USAF Historical Research Center at Maxwell Air Force Base has allowed it to happen. Perhaps it is elsewhere on the internet.
Found it on DocSlide apparently free to download. When downloaded,blank page resulted with a declaration...."File deleted by upload member"
