Piddlehinton
Note: This map only gives the position of Piddlehinton within the UK.
PIDDLEHINTON: Military airstrip
Military user: US First Army ‘V’ Corps
62nd Armoured Division Field Artillery Battalion
Location: Piddlehinton village is on the B3143, 4.5nm NNE of Dorchester town centre
Period of operation: 1944/5 only?
NOTES: It appears that two Piper L-4 Grasshoppers were based here. This would have been in the lead up to D-Day initially, but did the Grasshoppers go to France?
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