RAF Hawkinge: The RAF's Wartime Frontline Airfield; From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain and D-Day

“Moor’s background as an aviation historian is evident in the depth of research and attention to detail throughout the book.”
—The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation

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...