Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Brampton Park: RAF & 8th USAAF HQ

Brampton Park

History of Brampton Park

In the First World War the site was used to house German prisoners of war.

At the beginning of World War Two the site was used to shelter babies and children from London.

In 1942 the US Army Air Force First Bomb Wing took over the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Brampton

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

License

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0