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    Royal Air Force Chelveston or more simply RAF Chelveston is a former Royal Air Force station located on the south side of the B645 (former A45 road), 5...
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    Chelveston is a small village in North Northamptonshire. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Higham Ferrers and 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Wellingborough...
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    between the United States and the Soviet Union. They were stationed at RAF Chelveston with the 42nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, who performed the conversion...
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    bomber deployments to Britain with Sculthorpe, along with RAF Fairford, RAF Chelveston, and RAF Greenham Common, being turned over to USAFE for tactical...
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    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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    and animals such as Chelveston the Duck who was named after RAF Chelveston where Rayner was stationed during World War II. Chelveston occasionally bit and...
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    Group (60th TCG) was transferred from its temporary locations at RAF Chelveston and RAF Podington in East Anglia, which became heavy bomber bases. The operational...
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    England during February 1942. VIII BC was established at RAF Bomber Command Headquarters at RAF Daws Hill, in High Wycombe, on 22 February. With the end...
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    Carrier Group, based at RAF Chelveston. The 28th TCS flew Douglas C-47 Skytrains from the base until rejoining the 60th at RAF Aldermaston in August. The...
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    by 3. The opening scenes of the film were however filmed at former RAF Chelveston, a station several miles to the north where the 305th Bomb Group was...
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    TRS operated from RAF Sculthorpe United Kingdom during 1958, moving to Spangdahlem in 1959. The 42nd TRS flew from RAF Chelveston and remained there...
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    RAF Thurleigh (Call sign: Bullpen/Foxhole) 92d Bombardment Group (Triangle-B), RAF Podington 305th Bombardment Group (Triangle-G), RAF Chelveston 306th...
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  • were RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Upper Heyford; the post-strike bases were RAF Chelveston, RAF Fairford and RAF Mildenhall;...
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  • communications network linking: RAF Chicksands RAF Mildenhall RAF Lakenheath RAF Feltwell RAF Molesworth (via RAF Chelveston) RAF Alconbury RAF Croughton In September...
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    Royal Air Force Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history...
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    Unit, RAF Bampton Castle". National Archives. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017. "Archaeological Desk Based Assessment - Biomass Plant Chelveston Renewable...
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    continued to conduct tests on longer runways during detachments at RAF Snaith and RAF Chelveston. On 29 May 1942, the first flight of the Rotachute Mark II was...
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  • RAF Bruntingthorpe (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Burtonwood SAC/USAFE operational use ended 1966 Transferred to United States Army RAF Chelveston SAC...
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    which was transferred to RAF Abu Sueir, Egypt on 12 November. B-17s would be flown on combat missions from RAF Lyddia and RAF El Fayid, Egypt, attacking...
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    Reconnaissance Wing was assigned to RAF Alconbury. A shortage of facilities at Alconbury led to the 42d being stationed at RAF Chelveston, about 20 miles west of...
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    the Low Countries. During December 1942, the group was transferred to RAF Chelveston. The next Eighth Air Force heavy bomb group to arrive was the 96th Bombardment...
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    to arrive in England. The ground and air echelons were reunited at RAF Chelveston on 19 August 1942. The squadron flew its first mission on 5 September...
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    Lübeck Airport (redirect from RAF Lubeck)
    (Armoured) Squadron RAF Regiment". UK National Archives. Retrieved 12 April 2023. "2819 (Anti-Aircraft) Squadron RAF Regiment. Formed at Chelveston (Northamptonshire)"...
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    Royal Air Force Alconbury, or more simply RAF Alconbury, is an active Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon, England, that for many years was used by...
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    42–31255, Miss Liberty Belle of the 305th Bombardment Group stationed at RAF Chelveston that crashed in the English village of Wymington in 1944. The aircraft...
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    airfields (RAF Alconbury, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Chelveston, RAF Grafton Underwood, RAF Kimbolton, RAF Molesworth, RAF Podington, RAF Polebrook, and RAF Thurleigh)...
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    Royal Air Force Wattisham or more simply RAF Wattisham (ICAO: EGUW) was, between 1939 and 1993, the name of a Royal Air Force station located in East...
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    the Low Countries. During December 1942, the group was transferred to RAF Chelveston. On 27 January 1943, the group participated in the Eighth Air Force's...
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    Royal Air Force Debden or more simply RAF Debden is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Saffron Walden and approximately...
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