Description:An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were designated by the US Army as Army Air Force Reinforcement Depot, AAF Station 594.
This photograph possibly shows Brucheville airfield (Advanced Landing Ground A-16 "Brucheville") which was an Advanced Landing Ground southeast of the community of Brucheville near Utah Beach in Normandy, France. The airfield was built between 6 July and 2 August 1944 by the 843 Engineer Aviation Battalion. It served as an air base for Allied fighter-bombers operating above and just ahead of the beachhead on D-Day.