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    Royal Air Force Greenham Common or more simply RAF Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force station in the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham in...
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    Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in...
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    parish. The Greenham Industrial Estate is in the south-eastern corner, beyond the former RAF Greenham Common, which occupied much of the common between 1942...
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    began to move further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford, and RAF Fairford. As with the other stations...
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    defences were sought. Four RAF airfields were selected to receive SAC units: RAF Brize Norton, RAF Fairford, RAF Greenham Common and RAF Upper Heyford. In 1948...
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  • with a fully healed Ford in mid-August. In September, the former RAF Greenham Common military base in Berkshire was used and featured set constructions...
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  • Greenham is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. Greenham may also refer to: RAF Greenham Common, former military airfield in Berkshire Greenham...
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  • With other women she started the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp by marching from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire in 1981. She published...
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    Completion Squadron, being activated in 1949. The 3909th moved to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire during 1954. It was replaced by the 3910th Air Base...
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  • emergency military and civilian landings. Others included RAF Greenham Common, RAF Aldergrove and RAF Machrihanish. For a number of years, the base operated...
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    sea-launched "Tomahawk". The majority of GLCMs were deployed at RAF Greenham Common, the other UK base. During the early 1980s, the Ministry of Defence...
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  • Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the anti-nuclear protests in RAF Greenham Common. He felt that "while our relationship with that [nuclear] fear has...
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    RAF Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth were selected as the beddown sites for the GLCM. The 501st Tactical Missile Wing (TMW) was activated at RAF Greenham...
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    verdict from the Parliamentary Ombudsman. RAF Lakenheath remains a U.S. Air Force base as of 2024. RAF Greenham Common nuclear near-accident – a nuclear near-accident...
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    Heyford was one of those selected, the others being RAF Brize Norton, RAF Fairford and RAF Greenham Common. On 26 June 1950, men of the 801st Engineer Aviation...
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    to Bowdown House in Berkshire. The construction of the adjacent RAF Greenham Common airfield in March 1942 prompted another move to Foliejon Park in...
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    Retrieved 22 December 2016. "Close up photos of the Star Wars: Episode VII Greenham Common set | Making Star Wars". makingstarwars.net. 21 September 2014. Archived...
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    intermittently at RAF Greenham Common, initially under the title of the Royal Air Forces Association, South Eastern Area, Air Tattoo before moving to RAF Fairford...
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  • North Sea. New bases were developed at RAF Brize Norton, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Fairford and RAF Greenham Common were therefore developed as bases, which...
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    Greenham and Crookham Commons are two adjoining public park areas of 280.5-hectare (693-acre) common land designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific...
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    and the village of Crookham including Crookham Common and the eastern ranges of the old RAF Greenham Common airfield. The historic parish once also covered...
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    miles to the east of Wash Common, and a mile to the east can be found the site of the former RAF Greenham Common. Wash Common is the location of five Bronze...
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    Wing at RAF Greenham Common, England, where it provided support for the wing and tenant organizations as the host organization for Greenham Common rom 1982...
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    Squadron RAF No. 2 Squadron RAF No. 5 Squadron RAF No. 8 Squadron RAF No. 11 Squadron RAF No. 13 Squadron RAF No. 19 Squadron RAF No. 25 Squadron RAF No. 29...
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  • peace campaigner who spent 17 years living at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp on RAF Greenham Common protesting against the siting of American nuclear...
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    at six locations throughout Europe; in the United Kingdom (at RAF Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth), Belgium, Woensdrecht AB Netherlands, Germany, and...
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    4 warheads with Y1 yield option. 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash RAF Greenham Common Four Mark 28 training variants (BDU-16/E) on their transporter (MHU-7/M)...
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  • The Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force, and its successor body the Air Force Global Strike Command, operate or formerly operated many...
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    the deployment of the BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile at RAF Greenham Common. From 1985 to 1992, Kent succeeded Seán MacBride as president of...
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  • the siting of ninety-four nuclear missiles at RAF Greenham Common airbase. Her experience at Greenham began a lifelong commitment to campaigning against...
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