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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Ray Rayner (redirect from Chelveston the Duck)
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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Sculthorpe Training Area (redirect from RAF Sculthorpe)
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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1 Squadron RAF Regiment No. II Squadron RAF Regiment No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment (C-UAS) No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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to the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, based at RAF Chelveston, England, when the rest of the 351st returned to the United States....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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was on turret-gunnery. On 1 April 1942 the CGS moved from RAF Chelveston near Northampton to RAF Sutton Bridge. During the Battle of Britain, it became apparent...
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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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