Royal Air Force Great Ashfield or more simply RAF Great Ashfield is a former Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. It is located 10 miles (16 km)...
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Great Ashfield is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Bury St Edmunds. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the...
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Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield District of Nottinghamshire, England. With a population of 25,265 (according to the 2001 National...
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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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List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units (redirect from No. 1 Maintenance Unit RAF)
Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...
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Very Heavy RAF Great Ashfield B-17 Redesignated 548th Strategic Missile Squadron (1960) 549th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy RAF Great Ashfield B-17 Redesignated...
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(Heavy), an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit, stationed at RAF Great Ashfield, England. The group led the famous attack on the Focke-Wulf Assembly...
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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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Mary on 23 June 1943. The squadron assembled at its combat station, RAF Great Ashfield, England, and began participating in the strategic bombing campaign...
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Elizabeth on 1 July 1943. The squadron assembled at its combat station, RAF Great Ashfield, England, and began participating in the strategic bombing campaign...
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Elizabeth on 1 July 1943. The squadron assembled at its combat station, RAF Great Ashfield, England, and began participating in the strategic bombing campaign...
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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 control and was assigned to No. 53 Maintenance Unit RAF and became a maintenance sub-unit of No. 94 MU RAF which had its HQ at RAF Great Ashfield...
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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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Elizabeth on 1 July 1943. The squadron assembled at its combat station, RAF Great Ashfield, England, and began participating in the strategic bombing campaign...
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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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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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The Blitz (section Pre-war RAF night defence)
the German air fleets (Luftflotten) were ordered to attack London, to draw RAF Fighter Command into a battle of annihilation. Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall...
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Unit RAF was a special interceptor aircraft unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was part of Air Defence of Great Britain...
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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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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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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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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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Elmswell railway station (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846)
station. During World War II the station acted as a railhead for RAF Great Ashfield. Following nationalisation in 1948 Elmswell became part of British...
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Royal Air Force Bovingdon or more simply RAF Bovingdon is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England...
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Royal Air Force Aldermaston, or more simply RAF Aldermaston, is a former Royal Air Force station located 8 miles (13 km) east of Newbury, Berkshire and...
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303d and 6 from the 379 BG. RAF Fighter Command squadrons participating were: No. 129 Squadron RAF, No. 222 Squadron RAF, No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron...
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Hucknall Aerodrome (redirect from RAF Hucknall)
Hucknall Aerodrome (ICAO: EGNA) was a former general aviation and RAF aerodrome located 5 nmi (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) north north-west of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire...
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Hucknall (category Ashfield District)
the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 7 miles (11 km) north of Nottingham, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles...
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