The Royal Air Force Rattlesden or more simply RAF Rattlesden is a former Royal Air Force station located 9 miles (14 km) south east of Bury St Edmunds...
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War, Rattlesden was the site of the U.S. Army Air Force heavy bomber base, RAF Rattlesden.[citation needed] The site is now used by the Rattlesden Gliding...
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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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at RAF Rattlesden in Suffolk in 1964. A year later it was renamed as No. 1 Air Control Centre, and remained at Rattlesden. In 1967, it moved to RAF Wattisham...
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Group (Square-A), RAF Bury St. Edmunds 447th Bombardment Group (Square-K), RAF Rattlesden 486th Bombardment Group (Square-O/W), RAF Sudbury (Converted...
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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 RAF - Bloodhound SAM RAF Rattlesden No. 266 Squadron RAF - Bloodhound SAM RAF West Raynham No. 85 Squadron RAF - Javelin Central Fighter Establishment...
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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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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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theater of operations in November 1943. The squadron was stationed at RAF Rattlesden, England, from December 1943 to August 1945. It flew its first combat...
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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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Royal Air Force Thorpe Abbotts or more simply RAF Thorpe Abbotts is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Diss, Norfolk, in...
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theater of operations in November 1943. The squadron was stationed at RAF Rattlesden, England, from December 1943 to August 1945. It flew its first combat...
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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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in the European Theater of Operations with B-17 Flying Fortress at RAF Rattlesden as part of Eighth Air Force. During Big Week, 20–25 February 1944, the...
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theater of operations in November 1943. The squadron was stationed at RAF Rattlesden, England, from December 1943 to August 1945. It flew its first combat...
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States, departing in March 1943. The ground echelon was established at RAF Rattlesden, its first combat station, on 1 December 1942. The 322nd Group flew...
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Royal Air Force Podington, more commonly known as RAF Podington, is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station in northern Bedfordshire, England, 6 miles...
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the combat theater by May 1943. The ground echelon was established at RAF Rattlesden, its first combat station on 1 December 1942. The 322d Group flew its...
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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 Shipdham or more simply RAF Shipdham is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles south of Dereham, Norfolk, England. The airfield...
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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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Royal Air Force North Pickenham or more simply RAF North Pickenham is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles (4.8 km) East of Swaffham, Norfolk...
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Royal Air Force Watton or more simply RAF Watton is a former Royal Air Force station located 9 mi (14 km) southwest of East Dereham, Norfolk, England...
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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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RAF Daws Hill was a Ministry of Defence site, located near High Wycombe and Flackwell Heath, in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the M40 motorway. The...
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(USAAF): No. 2 Squadron RAF between 31 January 1943 and 19 March 1943 with detachments at RAF Westcott, RAF Newmarket, RAF Cranfield, RAF Duxford using the...
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Royal Air Force Bassingbourn or more simply RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 mi (5 km) north...
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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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November 1957. The last time the squadron reformed was on 1 December 1959 at Rattlesden to operate the Bristol Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile until it was finally...
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