This isn't a report on the full site as I hope to visit the control tower at a later date. All there is for the moment are some of the defenses.
The airfield was USAF during WWII .
Glenn Miller played his last airfield band concert in the big hangar at Kings Cliffe. This final concert took place on Tuesday 3 October 1944 as it was getting too cold to play in unheated hangars. A memorial was placed on a Callendar Hamilton hangar base.
Apparently it was a POW camp after the war.
Kingscliffe pow camp was opened for German pow on the 5th March 1946,and acts as a reception and administraction centre for all pow held
*by the RAF, its camp address and camp title was...No.1 German pow Holding Unit, RAF Kings Cliffe Peterborough/ Northants.,
*its Telephone number was Wansford 334. Since then 19,000 German pow have passed through the camp from USA, Canada, and Belgium
*on there way to various RAF units in the UK. Pow usually only remain in this camp for a few days, the total capacity of which is 3000.
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The airfield was USAF during WWII .
Glenn Miller played his last airfield band concert in the big hangar at Kings Cliffe. This final concert took place on Tuesday 3 October 1944 as it was getting too cold to play in unheated hangars. A memorial was placed on a Callendar Hamilton hangar base.
Apparently it was a POW camp after the war.
Kingscliffe pow camp was opened for German pow on the 5th March 1946,and acts as a reception and administraction centre for all pow held
*by the RAF, its camp address and camp title was...No.1 German pow Holding Unit, RAF Kings Cliffe Peterborough/ Northants.,
*its Telephone number was Wansford 334. Since then 19,000 German pow have passed through the camp from USA, Canada, and Belgium
*on there way to various RAF units in the UK. Pow usually only remain in this camp for a few days, the total capacity of which is 3000.
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