Greenham Common - Britain's Nuclear Cold War Country Park

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Near the market town of Newbury in The United Kingdom is a Country Park like no other, with an amazing back story.
Greenham Common Country Park was formerly a Royal Air Force and United States Air Force air base during World War 2, that was instrumental in both D Day and Operation Market Garden ( "A Bridge Too Far") in 1944.
Then at the start of The Cold War in 1952 it became a base for the US Strategic Air Command , in to the late 1960s. Before becoming one of the UK's most infamous military installations in the early 1980s, as the site of 96 United States Ground Launched Nuclear Cruise Missiles.
It was seen on TVs throughout the world as a scene of mass anti nuclear protests in the mid 1980s.
In 2021 3 decades after The Cold War ended in 1991, it is now a gentile country park and nature reserve ...... a place to walk your dog, go for a jog, or take the family for a day out. It has even been featured as the setting for a major Hollywood Blockbuster movie in 2015.
Join me for an in depth tour and history lesson of this under rated park in the English Countryside.
Special mentions for helping with this production:
Greenham Control Tower Museum:
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The Base Cafe:
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