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    Fenton Airfield was a World War II military airfield in the Northern Territory of  Australia located at Tipperary Station in what is now the locality of...
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    RAAF Airfield, NT 28 (11:07) Vesteys, NT 30 (12:30) Fenton Airfield, NT 6 (12:02) Fenton Airfield, NT 13 (21:45) Fenton Airfield, NT (23:12) Fenton Airfield...
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    Linton on Ouse as a satellite airfield and Enhanced Relief Landing Ground. The gates of the fully independent RAF Church Fenton were closed at 12:00 on 31...
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    Northern Territory, Australia Fenton Airfield, World War II airfield in the Northern Territory, Australia Clyde Fenton Hangar, Katherine Historical Society...
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    Southwest Pacific Theater in April 1943. The air echelon arrived at Fenton Airfield in the Australian Northern Territory by the end of April. The ground...
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  • Coomalie Creek Airfield, Coomalie Creek Cape Fourcroy Carson's Field, Katherine Daly Waters Airfield, see RAAF Daly Waters Fenton Airfield, Hayes Creek...
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  • 17 June 1942.   Long Airfield was generally employed in an associated and support role for nearby Fenton Airfield. The airfield has been abandoned since...
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    Leeds East Airport (category Church Fenton)
    operating licence for private use. The airfield was originally a Royal Air Force station known as RAF Church Fenton. It opened on 1 April 1937 when the station...
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    Richard John Pink, was killed in an air training accident at Church Fenton airfield on 9 March 1941. Smith, Richard A. (23 September 2004). "Pink, Richard...
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  • the Fifth Air Force. After training as a pilot, he was stationed at Fenton Airfield in Australia. In Australia, Kimlau flew B-24 Liberator bomber in missions...
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    Katherine Airfield was an airfield in the town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia that closed in 1978 when civil operations moved to RAAF Base...
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  • Shady Lady was finally pushed back and prepared for the flight to Fenton Airfield south of Darwin. Shady Lady's final flight was to Garbutt Field near...
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    former Drem Airfield. East Fenton and West Fenton comprise farms and small hamlets of cottages. The main barn of the farm at East Fenton was destroyed...
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    arrived at Fenton Airfield, Australia, and also encompassed a part of Western Australia at Corunna Downs Airfield, a top secret airfield in the Pilbara...
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  • with headquarters of their parent unit, the 380th Bomb Group being at Fenton Airfield. With the Northern Territory being subjected to the occasional Japanese...
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  • Drem as an airfield, precedes the creation of the Royal Air Force (RAF) as by 1916, an airfield had been established under the name West Fenton Aerodrome...
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  • the control of the RAAF's North-Western Area Command (NWA). Based at Fenton Airfield, the wing's aircraft sank seven Japanese ships in the Dutch East Indies...
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  • Military Detention Barracks Brocks Creek Chinatown and Temple Site WWII Fenton Airfield 12 Mile Chinatown (Settlement and Battery) Burrundie Explosives Magazines...
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    World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established a series of airfields in Australia for the collective defense of the country, as well as for...
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  • Sattler Airfield Military 12°36′36″S 131°03′06″E / 12.61000°S 131.05167°E / -12.61000; 131.05167 (Sattler Airfield) Hayes Creek Fenton Airfield Military...
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    bomber-equipped 380th Bombardment Group to return from New Guinea to Fenton Airfield near Darwin, and be ready to move to Cunderdin or Geraldton if a threat...
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    interception operations proved unfruitful and, as a result of heavy damage to the airfield, the squadron was withdrawn to Ipoh, falling back through Butterworth,...
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    Southwest Pacific Theater in April 1943. The air echelon arrived at Fenton Airfield, in the Australian Northern Territory by early May. For the remainder...
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  • ISBN 0-85059-532-0. Stead, Mark (13 April 2012). "65 homes planned for RAF Church Fenton airfield". York Press. Retrieved 11 March 2018. Richards, Clive (2017). "The...
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  • Memphis Belle (film) (category Films scored by George Fenton)
    Orchestra "The Bomb Run" (Fenton) - 1:30 "Limping Home" (Fenton) - 2:25 "Crippled Belle: The Landing" (Fenton) - 3:26 "Resolution" (Fenton) - 1:06 "Memphis Belle"...
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  • targeting Fenton Airfield south of Darwin. Another raid on Fenton was conducted on 6 July, when Lieutenant Hirata led 26 medium bombers to bomb the airfield. In...
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    but neither side suffered any combat losses. A major raid targeting Fenton Airfield south of Darwin took place on 30 June, when Lieutenant Commander Suzuki...
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    2023, this time at a new venue at Leeds East Airport (formerly RAF Church Fenton) in North Yorkshire, taking place on 15th and 16 July 2023. The proposed...
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    Australia, c. 16 March 1942 Daly Waters Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, c. 16 May 1942 Fenton Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, 2 August...
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    for airfield construction squadrons and their support units. Works squadrons constructed or improved airfields at Cooomalie, Millingimbi, Fenton, Long...
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