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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Apr 2021, 08:41

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RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

Quite so – which was my original query.

Quite so – which was my original query.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

10th Apr 2021, 11:53

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

I'm not disputing that, before and after US...

I'm not disputing that, before and after US tenure, all such sites would doubtless have had RAF or Air Ministry descriptors – and retained them officially at all times (ie they held the "title...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Apr 2021, 10:28

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

Roger Freeman spent time on Boxted airfield when...

Roger Freeman spent time on Boxted airfield when the Americans flew from there, so his testimony is probably the best we have. Moreover, his uncle had been the 'caretaker' RAF officer at Horham...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

2nd Apr 2021, 11:41

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

Indeed. I know from experience that US veterans'...

Indeed. I know from experience that US veterans' organisations were keen to use their own wartime parlance, or nomenclature, on their memorials.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

2nd Apr 2021, 10:09

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

That Wikipedia list prefixes every site with...

That Wikipedia list prefixes every site with 'RAF' – which, strictly speaking, would be accurate in 1946 after the Americans had left completely, leaving the sites on C&M.

What I'm trying to find...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Apr 2021, 15:35

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

Thanks. In 50-odd years of studying this stuff,...

Thanks. In 50-odd years of studying this stuff, I've never seen any contemporary examples, just names (like plain 'Shipdham'). I don't think Capt Anderson grasped the full story in his compilation –...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Apr 2021, 09:47

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

Please tell me on which page I can find...

Please tell me on which page I can find that reference – thanks.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

31st Mar 2021, 15:18

Replies: 21

RAF station – or not?

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Posted By XV490

RAF station – or not?

Can the airfield specialists help me out here? It's my belief that, once the US Army Air Force had raised Old Glory at the start of its tenure of a wartime UK airfield, the base was no longer 'RAF...

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