Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-1945

I've just ordered a copy of this book 'Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-1945' by Steve Willis & Barry Holliss.

The description says ' Quarto. Illustrated card covers. With Full details and Maps of 653 Wartime Sites of the RAF, Allied, RN and US Army Ai' does anyone know if it's actually worth the £20 I've paid for it?

Its a great book, one of my most used books

PNK;32499 wrote:

I think but the data is from AIR 10/4039 (Dec 1944).

I think it is too. Since this came out years before TNA let you use cameras, then Willis & Hollis either :

• Spent a year making notes at Kew, or
• Spent the equivalent of a mortgage on getting copies.

Either way a very good investment. I have the original as well (three separate volumes - not as detailed as the later single one)

Graham

I'm looking forward to this book arriving now.

Probably the first aifrield releated book I got. My dad found the omnibus edition in a second hand shop and bought it for me for a pound.

It's looking a bit worn out now

I have the original three volume set bought new but now well thumbed and falling apart.

I also bought the omnibus edition new and that has much better binding and has stood up well to repeated views.

A classic publication which has yet to be bettered.

I did start my own loose leaf binder in a similar format using CAD drawn layouts but with so many airfields to cover and so many other things to do I only got up to about 25!

My copy arrived this morning & I have to agree what an excellent book.

Peter

I'm trying to redraw Desborough on CAD.

Peter and bucanneer - Off Topic but:
which CAD do you use. Decades ago I drew all my plans on IBM mainframe CADAM. I've failed to find a Windoze application which is as easy to use.

The company made me redundant with the provisor - until your official leaving date just turn up for work and amuse yourself. I spent six weeks drawing site plans. The day I left they presented me with a 1 inch computer tape-reel containing all my drawings. A year later I worked for another company with IBM mainframe. The tech guy said he could transfer all my drawings to DXF format which would work in a DOS environment. Unfortunately he failed as he couldn't read the tape. Turned out that if you don't use a tape-reel for a long while the data 'prints-through' from one layer to the adjacent ones and corrupts.

Graham