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john s
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john s asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

What was the name of the WWII U.S.A.F. base in England code named "Valley" In Northwest England, Lancashire?

Could it be Blackpool, or Blackbrook?

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  • baz 9
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    1 decade ago
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    Was called Burtonwood...on the outskirts of Warrington, Lancashire. The area it covered was simply HUGE!..large enough to build a small town . Infact in the 80's they sold off most of the land for housing /industry /retail. I worked there in he 80's for a housing developer . There was still a small USAF base there.

    As you know this was the main landing area for the USAF during WW2 for armaments etc.

  • 1 decade ago

    I see this site loads . its visible when you travel on the M62 out/in to Liverpool. The motorway services Burtonwood are very close . I heard during the cold war there where nuclear weapons held there,therefore causing Liverpool to be on the Soviet bomb list . The site still has visible massive aircraft hangers wich always make me shudder to think what the hell was once held there . Is it still US owned ?

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you sure it was in northwest England?

    The Usaf used the raf base at Valley on Angelsey, Wales

    http://www.rafvalley.org/unitshistory.htm

  • 1 decade ago

    Burtonwood, closed in 1993

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  • 1 decade ago

    It's definitely RAF Burtonwood; we used to send faulty electrical goods up there and had two enormous bomber hangars to store them in.

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