To meet United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) requirements, there were fifty-one hardstands both of the loop and frying-pan type and two T-2 hangars, placed one on each side of the airfield, that on the south being adjacent to the technical site.

Its operational squadrons were: The 448th flew Consolidated B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.

The group took part in the intensive campaign of heavy bombers against the German aircraft industry during Big Week, 20–25 February 1944.

Bombed V-weapon sites, airfields, and transportation facilities prior to the Normandy invasion in June 1944, and on D-Day attacked coastal defenses and choke points.

Struck enemy positions to assist the Allied offensive at Caen and the breakthrough at Saint-Lô in July.

To the south of the airfield, on some of the former dispersed barrack and communal sites, several of the old living quarters and associated buildings are still in existence.

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