Picton House Farm
Note: As mentioned below, if I am correct, this map gives the location of Picton Castle.
PICTON HOUSE FARM: Military airstrip (also known as THE RHOS)
Military user: US Army Field Artillery aircraft
Location: Unknown? See Notes
Period of operation: 1943 and/or 1944 only?
NOTES: I now think this site is known today as Picton Castle, a manor house built with castellated features and quite typical of the sort of property favoured by the military top brass for an HQ or similar in WW2. There may well have been a war going on but the top officer class, (especially Americans?), saw no reason to forsake comparative luxury. They never have!
Another clue is that it is situated close to a location, barely a village, known as the The Rhos which is just to the NW. If these deductions are correct the site is about 1.2nm S of the A40, roughly 3nm SSE of Haverfordwest town centre. Looking at the location today on Google Earth it appears quite clear that any even half-competent Piper Cub pilot could still land here.
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