This video is here to present the temporary airstrips that British engineers and Airfield Construction Groups managed to build in the days and weeks which followed the successful landing of troops on Normandy beaches known and now commemorated as D-Day.
Commonwealth (from Australia, Britain, Canada, New-Zealand, South Africa), but also French, Norwegian, and Polish airmen landed their aircraft (Mustangs, Spitfires, Typhoons, Austers [reconnaissance plane],...) on these Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG's) and took off to observe, destroy enemy bases, bridges, railroads, roads, radar stations or support the advancing ground armies engaged on the battlefield.
ALG-B means British ALG.
(ALG-A meant American ALG)
Music : Torsion by Density & Time [YouTube studio]
