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HistoryFare Battlefield Tours

HistoryFare Tours is highly committed to providing exceptional battlefield tours for our highly valued customers.

HistoryFare Battlefield Tours

HistoryFare Tours is highly committed to providing exceptional battlefield tours for our highly valued customers.

Whether you’re researching an ancestors military journey by following in their footsteps, a military history enthusiast or exploring the subject for the first time, HistoryFare battlefield tours are individually tailored to suit your needs.

HistoryFare Battlefield Tours take you to the very sites where Allied airmen departed on missions over occupied Europe – many of whom never returned, having been captured or killed.

If you wish to visit the bases, monuments, towns, and cities where courageous airmen, airwomen, and paratroopers once lived, worked, and trained before embarking on their missions to occupied Europe, then a HistoryFare Battlefield Tour offers an ideal opportunity. This journey will immerse you in the places where the fight for freedom began, promising an unforgettable and meaningful experience of discovery.

The Battlefield Tours

Bomber County

During World War II, thousands of Allied airmen from the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Air Forces of the Commonwealth and our Allies were stationed at RAF airfields across Eastern England. Many of these bases were in Lincolnshire, which became known as “Bomber County.”
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Troop Carrier Command

The 9th Air Force operated one of the most effective troop-carrying units assembled during its time. In October 1943, it was re-established in England after its previous deployment in the Mediterranean Theatre, where it participated in operations across North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
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The Mighty Eighth

After Pearl Harbour, the US entered the war, and by 1943, over 100,000 US airmen were stationed in Britain, mainly in eastern England on nearly a hundred bases housing most of the 8th and some of the 9th Air Forces.
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The Red Devils

The British Airborne units earned themselves the nickname The Red Devils whilst fighting in the Mediterannean Theatre of Operations. Following their fighting in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy they were withdrawn back to England in preparation for the invasion of mainland Europe.

All American

For the airborne troops, they trained alongside the 9th Air Force with the US 82nd taking part in Operation Boston as part of D-Day jumping into Saint-Mere-Eglise whilst the British 1st Division was on standby back in England.

The Swooping Eagles

In 1944, the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, led by Major General Stanisław Sosabowski, moved into the Stamford area to join up with the British 1st Division.

Accreditations and awards

Leicestershire Tourism & Hospitality Award 2024
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award 2025
Historic Tour Operator of the Year
Melton BID Leisure & Tourism Award 2025
Tourism and hospitality awards
Guild of Battlefield guildes
British Association for local history
Leicestershire Tourism & Hospitality Award Accessible and Inclusive Tourism 2025
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