Bushy Park

BUSHY PARK: Military airstrip      (Also known as CAMP GRIFFISS)

Note: Pictures by the author.

 

Military user: US Army Air Corps       112^th Liaison Squadron      

 USAAF 9^th Air Force   (Station 586)


 

Location: In Bushy Park, NNW of Hampton Court Palace, roughly 0.3nm ESE of the Teddington Lodge entrance to Bushy Park off the B358.

Period of operation: 1944 only?

 

Notes: SHAEF HQ during the D-Day landings. The landing area was probably to the south of the memorial.

 

 
 

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eldon may

This comment was written on: 2019-07-18 18:30:06
 
Was part of the 1969th AACS Communications Squadron that first took over the base from the RAF in 1951. We were sent to open major relay center for the 3rd AF at South Ruislip. It was months before the move was made. I was personally sent over from Wiesbaden, Germany. I remember a holiday occasion when the RAF stomped us in cricket and we stomped them in softball. I think it was less than a year before they moved the relay center to South Ruislip and I think they closed Bushy. The grounds of Hampton Court Palace abutted our barracks area. Petula Clark dated someone in the outfit and I met my first wife in Kingston-on-Thames, the city across the Thames from Hampton Wyck, the nearest town to the base.
 

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