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    Royal Air Force Eye or more simply RAF Eye is a former Royal Air Force station located 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England on the...
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    Archangel Pronunciation /ˈræfeɪəl, ˈræfiəl, ˈreɪfiəl, ræfaɪˈɛl/ RAF-ay-əl, RA(Y)F-ee-əl, raf-eye-EL Gender Male Origin Word/name Hebrew Meaning "God has healed"...
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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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    the town, began as RAF Eye, occupied by the 490th Bomb Group of the USAAF's VIII Bomber Command during the Second World War. Eye today has a population...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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  • among other things, Operation Carthage carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War, where one of the planes...
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    RAF Great Ashfield 490th Bombardment Group (Square-T), RAF Eye (Converted from B-24s to B-17s, Summer 1944) 493d Bombardment Group (Square-S), RAF Debach...
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  • RAF Eye B-24 B-17 Inactivated 1945 849th Bombardment Squadron, Heavy RAF Eye B-24 B-17 Inactivated 1945 850th Bombardment Squadron (Provisional) RAF Harrington...
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    (Heavy) replaced the 470th and trained B-24 crews until it deployed to RAF Eye England in April 1944. The 494th Bombardment Group then replaced the 490th...
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    along the southern ferry route beginning on 12 April. The group arrived at RAF Eye, its combat station, on 28 April. However, before the group could fly its...
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    military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom...
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  • Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by Welsh author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1978 by the Penguin Group under the title...
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    Raf coffee is a popular coffee drink in some countries of the former USSR, which appeared in the late 1990s in Russia. Prepared by adding cream and vanilla...
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    stood up at RAF Leuchars on 6 September 2010, making Leuchars the second RAF base to operate the Typhoon. On 20 March 2011 ten Typhoons from RAF Coningsby...
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    Attached from: 490th Bombardment Group (RAF Eye) 788th Bombardment Squadron Attached from: 467th Bombardment Group (RAF Rackheath) The 801st Bomb Group became...
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  • Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film directed by Richard Marquand, and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. Written by Stanley Mann,...
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    squadron arrived at RAF Eye, its combat station, on 28 April Before it could begin combat with the 490th Group, the squadron moved to RAF Cheddington two...
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    Royal Air Force Mildenhall, or more simply RAF Mildenhall (IATA: MHZ, ICAO: EGUN), is a Royal Air Force station located near Mildenhall in Suffolk, England...
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    the southern ferry route beginning on 12 April. The squadron arrived at RAF Eye, its combat station, on 28 April and began combat operations on 31 May...
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    to destroy the records of the Gestapo, to disrupt their operations. The RAF initially turned down the request as too risky, due to the location in a...
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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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    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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    Airbus A330 MRTT (redirect from RAF Voyager)
    required by RAF tasking. No. 10 Squadron, at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire No. 101 Squadron, at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire No. 1312 Flight, at RAF Mount...
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    October 2004). "My Leeds". The Guardian. London. p. 14. "Slideshow: Hidden six decades, RAF's eye view of Leeds". Weekly News. Leeds. 9 October 2013....
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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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    Bombardment Squadron Converted to B-29s, December 1944 490th Bombardment Group RAF Eye, May 1944-October 1944 848th Bombardment Squadron 849th Bombardment Squadron...
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    Royal Air Force Northolt or more simply RAF Northolt (IATA: NHT, ICAO: EGWU) is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km;...
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    aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth. The squadron motto, In omnibus princeps ("First in all things") reflects the squadron's status as the RAF's oldest unit,...
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    Kartalı, designated E-7T, the Republic of Korea Air Force ("Project Peace Eye", 피스 아이), and the United Kingdom (designated Wedgetail AEW1). In April 2022...
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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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