RAF Hawkinge: The Raf's Wartime Frontline Airfield; From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain and D-Day (Moor Anthony J.)(Pevná vazba)

As the nearest RAF station to Occupied Europe, the airfield at Hawkinge in Kent found itself quite literally on the frontline during the Second World War. However, Hawkinge's association with British military aviation began more than two decades earlier, during the First World War.

Already a pre-war airfield, it was in 1915 that the land was requisitioned for use by the Royal Fling Corps. The first personnel arrived a few months later to serve at was initially named Folkestone Field. Mainly used as a base for transporting aircraft across to France and the Western Front, a name change to Hawkinge Aeroplane Dispatch Station soon followed, at which point its remit also included the transportation of supplies to troops in France and Belgium.

It was following the reorganization of the RAF in 1923 that Hawkinge underwent the next stage in its development. New hangars and
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