The Airborne Forces Development Centre and the Airborn Depot

We left that meeting at saint paul's confident in our leaders. The armies, american and british, moved into their concentration areas for us. Camps had been constructed around the mass of airfields from which we wee to take off. 38 group who carried the coupdemain parties, towed all our gliders and dropped the fifth parachute brigade, were based on airfields at brise, norton, tarrant, rushton, fairford, keyville and harwell. Whilst forty sixth group, who carried the third parachute brigade, flew from blake hill farm down ampney and broadwell. All the work connected with the fixing up of these camps, man