It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as
locations for airfields in times of conflict and war. The nation's
distance from Continental Europe made it relatively safe from enemy
attack and, therefore, ideally suited for training. It also due to
its location on the western side of Great Britain near to the
Western Approaches and the Atlantic convoys that the airfields in
Pembrokeshire, as a peninsula, were ideally suited for Coastal
Command operations into the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay. In
Wales there were thirty-seven airfields and four relief landing
grounds, eleven of which were operationally involved in air defence
and maritime operations. Also there were numerous temporary landing
areas attached to army camps associated with pre D-Day landings,
which do not count as proper airfields.
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