During World War Two Royal Air Force Balderton was a wartime RAF station which hosted among others No.408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF, the USAAF 437th and 439th Transport Carrier Groups, the Rolls-Royce jet engine trials unit and No.227 Squadron RAF. A new book is now available about the station in Nottinghamshire, which was located close to the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire county border.
After several years of detailed research, Colin Savill BA (Hons) has written a new history of RAF Balderton. The book has just been published by the museum, which is located on part of the former RAF Winthorpe airfield site, itself just 5 miles from the former site of RAF Balderton.
The book is entitled Station of Nations – The History of RAF Balderton and it is the story of the airfield from its beginnings to its demise as an RAF station.
The book (ISBN 978-1-9996353-0-5) is in a softback format; 298 pages (paper weight: 130gsm); and includes over 200 images - black & white and colour photographs, maps, document copies and illustrations and includes a Foreword by former Flight Engineer Maurice ‘Bill’ Bailey who served at Balderton with No.227 Squadron.
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