page_title: RAF Bisterne
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Bisterne
caption_attribution_description: English: P-47 of the 371st Fighter Group - 1945 at Furth Germany.
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Bisterne or more simply RAF Bisterne is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground in Hampshire, England. The airfield is located in the hamlet of Bisterne approximately 2 miles south of Ringwood; about 85 miles southwest of London.
  Opened in March 1944, Bisterne was a prototype for the type of temporary Advanced Landing Ground type airfield that would be built in France after D-Day, when the need advanced landing fields would become urgent as the Allied forces moved east across France and Germany. It was used by the United States Army Air Force as a fighter airfield. It was closed late in the summer of 1944.
  Today the airfield is a mixture of agricultural fields with no recognizable remains.
context_section_description: Royal Air Force Bisterne or more simply RAF Bisterne is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground in Hampshire, England. The airfield is located in the hamlet of Bisterne approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Ringwood; about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of London.
  Opened in March 1944, Bisterne was a prototype for the type of temporary Advanced Landing Ground type airfield that would be built in France after D-Day, when the need advanced landing fields would become urgent as the Allied forces moved east across France and Germany.  It was used by the United States Army Air Force as a fighter airfield.  It was closed late in the summer of 1944.
  Today the airfield is a mixture of agricultural fields with no recognizable remains.
caption: Republic P-47D-28-RE Thunderbolt Serial 44-200097 of the 406th Fighter Squadron (photo taken at Furth/Industriehafen, Germany
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