Crookham Camp was again used as a billet for thousands of men, as were the Haig Lines, and Boyes Barracks which was built in 1939, later to becoming known as Queen Elizabeth Barracks, but known more affectionately as the Gurkha Barracks. 

Church Crookham with it's ability to support RAF Odiham, the USAF at Blackbushe (RAF Hartfordbridge) aerodrome, the Army at Aldershot and the R.A.E at Farnborough, was strategically an important location. 

Surprisingly however, it only attracted the attention of the enemy on a few occasions.  The most tragic incident occurred on November 1942 at 4.25 p.m, when during an attempted Luftwuffe bombing of the Crookham Camp, a stray bomb fell on a house in Sandy Lane, killing all the 5 occupants, the Chapman family, who are now buried together, at Christ Church in Church Crookham. 

During another air-raid on June 26th 1940, bombs were dropped toward the Wyvern public house. They missed 'The Wyvern', but a bomb did strike No. 3 Park Villas, a house in Aldershot Road, Church Crookham, killing a woman occupant, Mrs. Mary Anne Elizabeth Ashley. These are the only notable attacks on the village.