Lots of interesting stuff here:
http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/FR/lowernormandy/manche.html#Beuzeville
Moggy
By: allan125 - 8th February 2015 at 18:54
The website is very good, and I have corresponded with him about a few of them – including B.11 Longues-sur-Mer, to the right of the gun battery.
See http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/FR/lowernormandy/calvados.html and from that
http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/FR/lowernormandy/calvados.html#longues – which Ronald also refers to as A.11 in the article. Unfortunately his comment “The location of A-11 Longues-sur-Mer in 1947. Bomb craters from the pre-D-Day bombing missions were still recognisable to the right, but the airfield had disappeared without a trace (IGN.fr)” is not factual – B.11 Longues-sur-Mer was to the right of the gun battery and not to the left, so it is not even shown in the photo! And to prove the correct location I also gave the source of my map copy, which is the same book he uses: La bataille aérienne de Normandie 1944, Jean-Pierre Benamou & François Robinard, ISBN 2-908561-07-7, Editions-Diffusion du Luys, – plus personal knowledge from having visited the ALG site, and met the farmers daughter, who remembered the Spitfires on her father’s land.
Allan
By: longshot - 6th February 2015 at 14:28
Winston Churchill was flown from Heston (west of London) in a USAAF C-53 to an advanced strip near Cherbourg around 20July1944…don’t know which strip
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/prime-minister-winston-churchill-climbs-down-from-a-us-army-news-photo/152245135
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/9896de5a9088ab7f.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/c761dda9092fb4e2.html
latter also (wrongly dated) on http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/2/image?excludenudity=false&family=editorial&page=2&phrase=churchill%20france%201944&sort=best
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