Lincolnshire’s Lost RAF Airfields of World War 2
Bomber County
During the Second World War there were around 50 military airfields in use across the Lincolnshire County Landscape. For this reason Lincolnshire was known as Bomber County during the war.
Nowadays only a handful of airfields remain in operational use by the RAF. Most famous airfields are RAF Scampton, RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby.
After the war most airfields were returned back into farmland and only very little traces are left to find if you know where to look. You might find an old airfield hut or remains of the concrete perimeter tracks in the fields an that’s about all there is left from these once impressive bases crowded with service men and women keeping the bombers and fighters of the Royal Air Force in operational condition to continue the missions against Germany.
RAF Anwick
Originally opened in 1916 as emergency landing field for fighters, but closed after the First World War in 1919 only to be re-opened as decoy airfield for the famous Fighter Command base, RAF Digby between 1939 and 1942. It was returned to farmland in the war.
