LAST THR OW of the DICE

摘要

On 18 September 1944, a Royal Air Force advance party occupied the large, hastily evacuated Luftwaffe airfield at Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Because it was designed to be a permanent air base, it was equipped with brick buildings, well-constructed huts, dispersed taxiways and earthen revetments. During the following months, the Eindhoven-based pilots were extremely busy with ground support, tactical reconnaissance and artillery reconnaissance missions, backing up the rapidly advancing Allied ground forces.