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    Royal Air Force Kimbolton or more simply RAF Kimbolton is a former Royal Air Force station located 8 miles (13 km) west of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire,...
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    Bombardment Group within the USAAF's VIII Bomber Command, stationed at RAF Kimbolton in England. Brown was from Weston, West Virginia. Franz Stigler (21...
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    1943 and were used as trainers. 42-5736 ("Tampa Tornado") was flown to RAF Kimbolton on 2 October 1943 where it was put on display and later used as a group...
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    unable to bail out, and they continued to fly back to their home base, RAF Kimbolton. Brown's damaged, straggling bomber was spotted by Germans on the ground...
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  • Kimbolton may refer to: Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, town in Cambridgeshire, England Kimbolton School Kimbolton Castle RAF Kimbolton, an airfield Kimbolton...
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    VIII Bomber Command B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England. Assigned to RAF Kimbolton in early 1943, the group flew more sorties than any other bomb group...
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    total missions; see for example "Ole Gappy" as mentioned in article RAF Kimbolton. Havelaar, Marion H. (1995) The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourn: The...
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    September 1942, moving to a temporary base at RAF Kimbolton on 1 October, and then finally to its permanent base at RAF Bassingbourn, England, on 14 October....
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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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    October 1942. The group had originally been assigned to RAF Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire, but Kimbolton's runways were not strong enough to support B-17 operations...
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    Group (Triangle-K), RAF Kimbolton 384th Bombardment Group (Triangle-P), RAF Grafton Underwood 94th Combat Bombardment Wing, RAF Polebrook (Call sign:...
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    echelon was established temporarily at RAF Kimbolton by 13 September 1942. However, the runways at Kimbolton were not up to handling heavy bombers, and...
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  • June 1945 303d Bombardment Group (RAF Molesworth): 13 September 1943 – 11 June 1945 379th Bombardment Group (RAF Kimbolton): 13 September 1943 – 12 July 1945...
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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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    echelon was established temporarily at RAF Kimbolton by 13 September 1942. However, the runways at Kimbolton were not up to handling heavy bombers, and...
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    Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington (IATA: BEQ, ICAO: EGXH) is a Royal Air Force station located 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Thetford near...
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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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    squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 21 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be...
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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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  • below) and mature elm trees that survived the Dutch elm disease crisis. RAF Kimbolton was opened as a bomber airfield on the southern edge of the village...
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    squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 20 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be...
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    Royal Air Force High Wycombe or more simply RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in...
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  • there, they were assigned to the 379th Bombardment Group stationed at RAF Kimbolton. In June 1944, he was promoted to Deputy Lead Navigator and on his 28th...
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    echelon was established temporarily at RAF Kimbolton by 13 September 1942. However, the runways at Kimbolton were not up to handling heavy bombers, and...
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    Royal Air Force Burtonwood (or RAF Burtonwood) is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces base that was located in Burtonwood, 2 miles...
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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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    squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 20 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be...
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    Greenock, Scotland, on 11 September, the ground echelon moved by train to RAF Kimbolton, a war expansion airfield in the English Midlands. Part of the air echelon...
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    squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 20 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be...
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    echelon was established temporarily at RAF Kimbolton by 13 September 1942. However, the runways at Kimbolton were not up to handling heavy bombers, and...
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