Further Reading
What follows is only a representative selection of the available reading on the subject of Cambridgeshire and its aviation heritage. Many people new to the subject have become interested because of a family connection they are researching. In this context, probably the most useful books to start with are:
- Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians
- Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
- Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors
Airfields – General
- Action Stations: Volume 1: Eastern England
- Action Stations: Military Airfields of Cambridgeshire
- Aerodromes of Fighter Command: Then and Now
- Archaeology of Airfields: The
- Bases of Bomber Command: Then and Now
- Battle of Britain Airfields
- Bomber Bases of World War 2, Airfields of 1st Air Division (USAAF): Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire Airfields in the Second World War
- Echoes of East Anglia
- Forgotten Aerodromes of World War 1
- Ghost Fields of East Anglia
- Heroes of Bomber Command: Cambridgeshire
- Military Airfields of Britain, The: East Midlands (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire)
- RAF Airfields of World War 2
Airfields – Specific
- Bassingbourn
- A History of RAF Bassingbourn
- Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourn, The: The 91st Bombardment Group in World War II
- Marion H Havelaar, William N Hess/1995
- Bottisham
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 83: Bottisham
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 2: The Histories of RAF Waterbeach and RAF Bottisham
- Bourn
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 85: Bourn & Caxton Gibbet
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 1: Histories of RAF Oakington & RAF Bourn
- Fire by Night: The Story of One Pathfinder Crew and Black Thursday 16/17 December 1943
- Brampton
- RAF Brampton: Draft Urban Design Framework
- Huntingdonshire District Council/2011
- Castle Camps
- History of RAF Castle Camps: A Unique Airfield
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 3: The Histories of RAF Wratting Common and RAF Castle Camps
- John F.Hamlin, Ron Pearson/1989
- Caxton Gibbet
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 85: Bourn & Caxton Gibbet
- Duxford
- Duxford 1940: a Battle of Britain base at war
- Life at Duxford 1940
- Imperial War Museum Duxford
- Stephen Woolford, Carl Warner/2008
- RAF Duxford
- RAF Duxford: a history in photographs from 1917 to the present day
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 1: Duxford
- Gransden Lodge
- Trials and Tribulations: the Story of RAF Gransden Lodge
- Mepal
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 47: Mepal & Witchford
- Molesworth
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 40: Molesworth
- Oakington
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 10: Oakington
- RAF Oakington – by Day and by Night
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 1: Histories of RAF Oakington & RAF Bourn
- Snailwell
- Royal Air Force at Newmarket, The: the histories of RAF Newmarket and RAF Snailwell
- Steeple Morden
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 74: Steeple Morden
- A Village Airfield at War: RAF Steeple Morden 1939-1943
- Steeple Morden Signals
- Les Radtke, Ken Wells (ed.)/2011
- Steeple Morden Strafers 1943-45
- Upwood
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 70: Upwood
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 4: The Histories of RAF Upwood and RAF Warboys
- Warboys
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 4: The Histories of RAF Upwood and RAF Warboys
- Waterbeach
- At the ‘Beach – The story of RAF Waterbeach and Waterbeach Barracks
- John F Hamlin and Oliver J Merrington/2011
- Some of the story of 514 Squadron: Lancasters at Waterbeach
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 2: The Histories of RAF Waterbeach and RAF Bottisham
- Witchford
- Memories of RAF Witchford
- Barry and Sue Aldridge/2013
- ‘Airfield Focus’ series, 47: Mepal & Witchford
- Wittering
- RAF Wittering: information handbook
- Wratting Common
- Royal Air Force in Cambridgeshire, The, Part 3: The Histories of RAF Wratting Common and RAF Castle Camps
- John F.Hamlin, Ron Pearson/1989
Decoy Sites
- Fields of Deception: Britain’s Bombing Decoys of World War II
General Military History
- 3 Group Bomber Command: An Operational Record
- Chris Ward, Steve Smith/2008
- 20th Century Defences in Britain: Cambridgeshire
- Air Raid! The Enemy Air Offensive Against East Anglia 1939-1945
- Bomber Command War Diaries, The: An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945
- Martin Middlebrook, Chris Everitt/2014
- Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
- Cambridgeshire at War
- Chronology of World War Two
- Edward Davidson, Dale Manning/1999
- Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989
- Wayne D Cocroft, Roger JC Thomas/2003
- Cold War East Anglia
- Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape
- Defending Cambridgeshire: A Military History from Prehistory to Present
- East Anglia at War 1939-45
- East Anglia at War
- England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines
- Huntingdonshire in the Second World War
- Caroline Clifford, Alan Akeroyd/2007
- Intruders over Britain: The Luftwaffe Night Fighter Offensive 1940-45
- Night after Night: New Zealanders in Bomber Command
- Project Emily: Thor IRBM and the RAF
- Somewhere in England: American Airmen in the Second World War
- War-Torn Skies of Great Britain: Cambridgeshire
Squadrons
- 7
- No.7 Bomber Squadron RAF in World War II
- 19
- Spitfire Squadron: No. 19 Squadron at War 1939-1941
- 75
- Forever Strong: The Story of 75 Squadron RNZAF 1916-1990
- 97
- Fire by Night: The Story of One Pathfinder Crew and Black Thursday 16/17 December 1943
- 115
- Wellingtons of 115 Squadron over Europe
- 514
- Nothing Can Stop Us: The Definitive History of 514 Squadron RAF
- Simon Hepworth, Andrew Porrelli, Harry Dison/2015
- Some of the Story of 514 Squadron: Lancasters at Waterbeach
- Striking Through Clouds: The War Diary of 514 Squadron RAF
- Simon Hepworth, Andrew Porrelli/2014
