History of RAF Millom & the Genesis of RAF Mountain Rescue

Covering the airfields’ wartime service from 1941 and brief reoccupation of the station in 1953, to its eventual conversion into HMP Haverigg. Extensively illustrated with over 260 photographs and including over 50 first-hand accounts of life at RAF Millom this extremely accessible history will engage a broad readership and provide a historical treasure for future generations.

The units’ primary purpose was the training of aircrew for Bomber Command and those airmen who passed through the station went on to have many and varied experiences of aerial warfare.