Description:Yarnfield acted as a transit camp for United States Air Force personnel during the Second World War and was named Army Air Force Reinforcement Depot, AAF Station 594. This photograph was taken at one of the camps built in and around Yarnfield to house munitions workers from Woolwich Arsenal who were to be working at the Royal Ordnance Factory at nearby Swynnerton. There were seven camps named after Royal Navy Admirals: Beatty, Drake, Duncan, Frobisher, Howard, Nelson, and Raleigh. Instead they acted as transit camps for United State Airforce Personnel. There was also a camp at Millmeece known as Corby Hall.
This image is 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.