Membury Airfield

The unit insignia of the 436th Troop Carrier Group, stationed at RAF Membury from 02/44 to 02/45.

The 436th TCG took part in Operations Overlord, Dragoon and Market Garden, as well as re-supply missions to the 101st Airborne in Bastogne during the Ardennes fighting.

This insignia was recovered in 1992 from a building on the old technical site at RAF Membury by members of the Ridgeway Military and Aviation Research Group.

Click here to read about Charles Asey, A/502 PIR, 101st Airborne Division, who took off from RAF Membury for the Normandy jump.

Members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 501st PIR (101st A/B Division) fitting chutes prior to the invasion of Holland on 17th September 1944.

U5-E, F & N from the 436th TCG. (A3-size copies of this drawing are available from Graphite22).

Membury Airfield is now bisected by the M4 motorway, but many buildings remain including these hangars and many Maycrete huts, both on the main airfield site and at dispersed sites in the nearby woods and village.