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Friston AirfieldOn the rolling downland above the cliffs of the Seven Sisters, an emergency landingground with a grass landing strip was established early on in the Second World War (Fig31). This served returning planes, damaged or short of fuel, unable to reach their homebases. The airfield was improved from 1942 onwards. It was also used by resident fighters,No. 253 Squadron with Hurricanes, joined by No. 32 Squadron, but remained as anemergency landing for bombers limping home from the Continent. It was closed in April1945 and all evidence of the grass runway has now gone (Birtles 1999, 58). All thatremains of this airfield are pillboxes adjacent to the road and two semi-sunken air raidshelters in trees to the rear of Gales Farm.Figure 31 Friston Airfield – a Second World War emergency landing ground with a grass landing stripsurrounded by perimeter roads, hangars and support buildings. US/7GR/LOC353 3025 29-MAY-1944English Heritage USAAF Photography.Embarkation pointsIn 1942 Churchill ordered the construction of landing-craft embarkation points along thesouthern and eastern coast of England (Hegarty and Newsome 2007, 65). The port atNewhaven and the adjacent beaches along Seaford Bay were developed as majorembarkation points. Within Newhaven harbour a substantial sloping concrete hard andsupport yard was established from which landing craft could be loaded with troops andsupplies (Fig 32). Concrete hards were built on the beach to the east of the harbour© ENGLISH HERITAGE 53 22 - 2013
mouth with lines of pontoons and ‘dolphin’ tethers extending out to sea enabling ships tobe moored at different times in the tide cycle. The concrete hards above the beach arestill in place.Figure 32 Landing craft at Sleeper’s Hole, Newhaven 1943. RAF TQ4400/15 15-SEP-194 English HeritageRAF Photography.© ENGLISH HERITAGE 54 22 - 2013
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INTRODUCTIONThis report describes t
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