RAF Beaulieu Virtual Tour + WW2 Airfield Overview

In this virtual tour of RAF Beaulieu (USAAF Station 408) I will take you through all the sites and historical elements that still exist to this day. This will let you plan your own walk and visit of this New Forest WW2 airfield.

Hopefully I’ve done the hard work for you over the last year, seeking out and researching much of this airfield so you can visit and not waste hours trying to find each area.

** CORRECTION: Around 26 mins I say that women didn't fly the planes at Beaulieu. My intention here was in reference to the WAAF. However, women in the ATA did fly planes into Beaulieu such as Mary Ellis. You can read more about here here: https://nfknowledge.org/contributions/memories-of-an-ata-girl/ **

You will see that in this video I use the Google Earth application. I deliberately chose to select the 1999 satellite imagery as it makes the identification of the airfield a lot easier. You will notice that in 1999 the images appear to be taken in summer when the landscape is clearer. 20 years ago, the aspects of the Beaulieu Aerodrome were a lot easier to identify from the air.

** RAF Beaulieu Videos featured in this tour **

RAF Beaulieu Walk & History Part 1
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3r3IsJ_kw8

RAF Beaulieu Walk & History Part 2
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eEHkzgqQc0

RAF Beaulieu’s Shooting-In Butt (aka the Mound or Hump)
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTaPMSPHLYw

The Story of the FA 223 Drache that crashing on Beaulieu Airfield
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8od1Hq3Js4

Finding the Bomb Target on Beaulieu Airfield
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWmslJCMp8

RAF Beaulieu’s Battle Headquarters
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aua7gMvgYgY

** Follow my RAF Beaulieu project **

If you are interested in the history of this New Forest wartime airfield please follow my project on:

➜ https://rafbeaulieu.co.uk

Follow my project to document as many sites as possible on the historical RAF Beaulieu site, as well as documenting walks that you can do to explore the airfield.

** Join the discussion **

Please visit the New Forest and Hampshire WW2 Heritage Facebook group where members talk about RAF Beaulieu's history and other sites of interest:

➜ https://www.facebook.com/groups/400948317956198

** Credits **

I have noted many of the photo and footage credits in the video itself. Some credits were not marked in the actual video, so I would also like to thank the following people and organisations in no particular order.

Alan Brown
Tony Johnson
Dave Reed
William Phillips
Peter Kirk
John Leete
T.Wallis who created the flight simulator images. Visit his website on http://www.rafibsley.com
The American Air Museum for images.
Model plane photo: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/27301
Plan of what the RAF Beaulieu Battle Headquarters could have looked like is from Mike and Iain at http://battlehq.info
Illustration of the pizie by W. Measom from the 1853 edition of A Peep at the Pixies by British novelist Mrs. Anna Eliza Bray at https://www.britannica.com/topic/pixie
New Forest National Park for the pundit code image.
US fighter footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyxO2f28_M
Wimpey truck photo: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205448396

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