HistoryFare Battlefield Tours

HistoryFare Tours is highly committed to providing exceptional battlefield tours for our highly valued customers.

Whether you’re researching an ancestors military journey by following in their footsteps, a military history enthusiast or exploring the subject for the first time, HistoryFare battlefield tours are individually tailored to suit your needs.

HistoryFare Battlefield Tours take you to the very sites where Allied airmen departed on missions over occupied Europe – many of whom never returned, having been captured or killed.

If you wish to visit the bases, monuments, towns, and cities where courageous airmen, airwomen, and paratroopers once lived, worked, and trained before embarking on their missions to occupied Europe, then a HistoryFare Battlefield Tour offers an ideal opportunity. This journey will immerse you in the places where the fight for freedom began, promising an unforgettable and meaningful experience of discovery.

The Battlefield Tours

The HistoryFare Battlefield Tours will take you on a journey of discovery and remembrance, following in the footsteps of those who gave so much for the freedom we enjoy today.

Bomber County

During World War II, thousands of Allied airmen from the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Air Forces of the Commonwealth and our Allies were stationed at RAF airfields across Eastern England. Many of these bases were in Lincolnshire, which became known as “Bomber County.”

The Bomber County Battlefield Tour will take you to key sites across Lincolnshire to discover more about RAF Bomber Command and the men and women who supported the bombing campaign of World War Two.

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Troop Carrier Command

The 9th Air Force operated one of the most effective troop-carrying units assembled during its time. In October 1943, it was re-established in England after its previous deployment in the Mediterranean Theatre, where it participated in operations across North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, once again taking over many former RAF airfields.

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The Mighty Eighth

After Pearl Harbour, the US entered the war, and by 1943, over 100,000 US airmen were stationed in Britain, mainly in eastern England on nearly a hundred bases housing most of the 8th and some of the 9th Air Forces.

The envious men of WWII Britain considered the ‘Yanks’ to have been “overpaid, oversexed and over here” and pinching all their girls, but the might of the American military based in our country was to prove decisive in securing the final victory.

The US 8th Air Force was the largest air striking force ever committed to battle, with the first units arriving in May 1942 many taking over existing RAF airfields across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire & Suffolk.

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During the same period as the repatriation of troop carrier units to the United Kingdom, the British 1st Airborne Division and the US 82nd Airborne Division also arrived following their redeployment from the Mediterranean.

Upon their arrival in England, these divisions established new bases throughout the East Midlands, particularly in the counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire.

The Red Devils

The British Airborne units earned themselves the nickname The Red Devils whilst fighting in the Mediterannean Theatre of Operations. Following their fighting in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy they were withdrawn back to England in preparation for the invasion of mainland Europe.

The British 1st Airborne Division set up their new bases across Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, with the 1st Brigade in Lincolnshire and the 4th Brigade in Leicestershire.

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All American

For the airborne troops, they trained alongside the 9^th Air Force with the US 82^nd taking part in Operation Boston as part of D-Day jumping into Saint-Mere-Eglise whilst the British 1^st Division was on standby back in England. 

The 82nd returned to England to prepare for Operation Market Garden, during which they were dropped near Nijmegen while British and Polish airborne forces landed at Arnhem.

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The Swooping Eagles

In 1944, the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, led by Major General Stanisław Sosabowski, moved into the Stamford area to join up with the British 1^st Division.

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