Bradninch
Note: This map only shows the position of Bradninch village within the UK.
BRADNINCH: Military airstrip
Military user: US First Army ‘V’ Corps, 406th Field Artillery Group, 955th Field Artillery Battalion
Location: W of the M5 motorway today, about 5.5nm SSE of Tiverton, 8.5nm NNE of Exeter
Period of operation: 1944/5 only?
NOTES: It appears that two Piper L-4 Grasshoppers were based here.
THE SALMET CONNECTION
Also, it appears, BRADNINCH was a navigation ‘staging post’ for Henri Salmet in 1912 as he made his way from Liskeard via Plymouth, Torquay and Exeter to Taunton. What was it about Bradninch that made it so easy to identify?
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