Brampton Park

Brampton Park: RAF & 8th USAAF HQ

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.

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