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At Brussels airport, 60% of flights were canceled, while the Charleroi airdrome was shut down.

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.

After more than twelve hours in the air, they made an emergency landing on Sicily, at an airdrome held by British forces.

The setting, at the height of World War II, is a hotel in Lincolnshire, a gathering spot for Royal Air Force  fighters stationed at a nearby airdrome.

Then there were to be airplane factories on the same airdrome.