The RAF Fauld explosion on 27th November 1944

Header Image: Aerial view of the crater at RAF Fauld after the explosion on 27th November 1944.

The two World Wars left indelible marks on the lands over which they were fought; from the scarring of the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War to the remnants of the Mulberry harbour off Arromanches, Normandy, in the Second World War. As we approach Remembrance Day this year it is worth reflecting on a scar on the landscape in a quiet corner of Staffordshire, which tells of the loss of many lives, military and civilian, eighty years ago this month on 27th November 1944, in a war-related accident.

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