Royal Air Force Chedburgh or more simply RAF Chedburgh is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK. The Bury...
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1832 to 1856. On 7 September 1942 South of the Bury Road, RAF Chedburgh opened, in No. 3 Group RAF Bomber Command. Major construction work was carried out...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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No. 3 Group RAF (3 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group first active in 1918, again between 1923 and 1926, then as part of RAF Bomber Command from...
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Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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be the site of a major British operation. In December 1944 it moved to Chedburgh as a transport unit. It ceased wartime operations in May 1945, just before...
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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF)
operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
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in 1942 with the larger Short Stirling. Later, the Squadron moved to RAF Chedburgh. The memoirs of a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot recount his first operation...
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No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron (redirect from No. 304 Squadron RAF)
unit in RAF Coastal Command; and from June 1945 as a transport unit in RAF Transport Command. 304 Squadron was created on 23 August 1940 at RAF Bramcote...
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was formed at RAF Chedburgh on 17 June 1943 as a heavy bomber squadron equipped with the Short Stirling. It was a part of No.3 Group of RAF Bomber Command...
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No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron (redirect from No. 301 Squadron RAF)
the Handley Page Halifax again until 301 Squadron was disbanded at RAF Chedburgh on 18 December 1946. Crews of C Flight No. 138 Squadron, No. 1586 Flight...
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posted to No. 214 (FMS) Squadron, based out of RAF Chedburgh. Peden and his crew arrived at RAF Chedburgh late in the afternoon of 22 September, ready to...
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Lakenheath (section RAF Lakenheath)
host to the largest United States Air Force base in the United Kingdom, RAF Lakenheath. Lakenheath Fen Nature Reserve, created in 1996, restored wetlands...
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The Borough of St Edmundsbury wards of Bardwell, Barningham, Barrow, Chedburgh, Haverhill East, Haverhill North, Haverhill South, Haverhill West, Hundon...
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Saxham, Lt Saxham, Ousden, Wickhambrook, Hargrave, Tuddenham, Chevington, Chedburgh, Dalham, and Gazeley. The parish church is the 14th century All Saints...
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(60 km) north-west of Ipswich. The large Royal Air Force station, RAF Mildenhall, as well as RAF Lakenheath, are located north of the town. Both are used by...
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Barnham, Suffolk (section RAF Barnham)
building status. Barnham Camp remains a training site for the RAF Regiment as a satellite camp to RAF Honington. Barnham Heath is a Site of Special Scientific...
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Brandon, resulting in further expansion of the town. Brandon is adjacent to RAF Lakenheath, a Royal Air Force station in use since World War I. American...
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The village is known for its RAF station, RAF Honington. It is also near two joint RAF/USAF airfields: RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. Honington was the...
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including Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill. The American military base at RAF Mildenhall is one of the main employers of this parish and is located in...
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Tuddenham (section RAF Tuddenham)
population of 450. falling to 423 at the 2011 Census. Between 1943 and 1963, RAF Tuddenham was a Royal Air Force station close to the village. During the...
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Building 58, Former RAF Barnham Atomic Bomb Store...
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was operated in the north-east of the parish to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Honington. A former pumping station at Bailypool Lane off Stow Lane was given...
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A small river, the Blackbourne, runs along the east of the village. The RAF Honington airfield covers much of the western part of the parish. A poem...
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miles west of the town of Mildenhall, and just south of the large airbase RAF Mildenhall. It sits on the edge of the Fens. West Row hosts a general store...
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Queen Mary. During the Second World War, the headquarters of No. 3 Group of RAF Bomber Command were located in Harraton House. Nearby Newmarket Heath, the...
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with a population of 16 households; 12 freemen, 3 smallholders, & 1 slave. RAF Knettishall was built close to Coney Weston from late 1942 by W&G French...
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Hopton. The parish contains Knettishall Heath Country Park and the remains of RAF Knettishall, a World War II airfield. Estimates of Total Population of Areas...
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