RAF Filton, Bristol, April 1944. Artist: USAAF Photographer.

RAF Filton, Bristol, April 1944. Artist: USAAF Photographer.

2-673-834 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

RAF Filton, Bristol, April 1944. In the Second World War the Bristol Aeroplane Company aircraft factories made Filton a target, and after a bombing raid in 1940 an RAF fighter squadron was based here. Prior to D-Day it became an assembly plant for US aircraft shipped across the Atlantic.


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  1. USAAF Photographer, attributed to: photographer:

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  1. Photograph

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File Size : 30,135kb


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  1. us_31gr_loc26_v_0005.tif
  1. 0250006282
  1. 2-673-834
  1. 2673834
  1. us_31gr_loc26_v_0005.tif


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