Opened in 1944, Lymington was a prototype for the type of temporary Advanced Landing Ground type airfield which would be built in France after D-Day, when the need for advanced landing fields would become urgent as the Allied forces moved east across France and Germany.

It was closed in 1946 after two years of being utilized as a storage area for the Royal Navy.

The group ended operations at Giebelstadt, Germany in May 1945, and returned to the United States in August.

One of the original blister hangars remains on the standing today adjacent to a private grass airstrip (Pylewell House) overlaid on the site of the former N/S military airfield runway, (31/13).

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency