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    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 (3...
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    Lancashire, the name Burtonwood is known worldwide as the location of the former RAF Station Burtonwood military camp. Burtonwood village itself is a few...
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    The Gulliver's World site was once part of the RAF Burtonwood air base. The official RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre was established and built on the...
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    two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood near Warrington. The pilot Captain...
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  • flag of the United States. The B-29 groups on the UK and the depot at RAF Burtonwood were placed under the 3rd Air Division. It became the Third Air Force...
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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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    RF-4Cs, along with the 513th Troop Carrier Wing at RAF Mildenhall. Also, RAF Burtonwood, which was operating as a reserve USAFE base since the opening of Châteauroux-Déols...
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    up when they crashed at sea. The unit departed in November 1952 for RAF Burtonwood. 7554th Target Tow Flight (March–December 1952) (Stinson L-5E, Douglas...
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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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    30 May 2012. "RAF Burtonwood". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Llandow airfield". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Colerne". Air...
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    the squadron moved to New Hampshire; Florida; Kindley Field, Bermuda; RAF Burtonwood, England, with forward basing at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Bermuda for...
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    Maintenance Units and also used as a satellite landing ground for RAF Burtonwood and RAF Shawbury. It was then transferred to the Admiralty who used it from...
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    Bombardment Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona were deployed to RAF Burtonwood, England and from there to various bases in Germany as a "training deployment...
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  • 1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
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    Army Air Forces, Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress flying from RAF Polebrook to RAF Burtonwood crashed into the side of Cadair Berwyn resulting in the deaths...
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    reformed on 7 December 1940 and operated Turbinlite-equipped Bostons from RAF Burtonwood, making night attacks and towing aerial mine charges with steel cables...
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    Upper Heyford. In 1948 the Americans occupied RAF stations including Fairford, Brize Norton, Burtonwood, Greenham Common, Mildenhall, Lakenheath and Woodbridge...
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    caused by an engine fire while demonstrating a YP-80A (44-83026) at RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire, England, on 28 January 1945, the YP-80A was temporarily...
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    to include the 47th Area Support Group with a major depot located at RAF Burtonwood, Cheshire, in the United Kingdom, stockpiling POMCUS equipment. Other...
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  • Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-4401-7. Wynn, Humphrey - RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces, their Origins, Roles and Deployment 1946-69...
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    (122443) operated by the United States Navy undershot the runway at RAF Burtonwood and collided with a USAF Douglas C-47 (42-100912). One crew member on...
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    Boeing WB-50D of the 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron based at RAF Burtonwood, England...
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    Warrington was the location of the Burtonwood RAF base and Risley Ordnance Factory. During World War II, RAF Burtonwood served as the largest US Army Air...
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    at RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire, and delivered to RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire and later used by No. 24 (Communications) Squadron at RAF Hendon...
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    Naval Air Squadron 1841 Naval Air Squadron 1842 Naval Air Squadron RAF Burtonwood "In Memoriam – Wren Anne McCormick". Royal Navy Research Archive. Retrieved...
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    gliding club was replaced in June 1984 when RAF 635 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) moved in from RAF Burtonwood. They operated Slingsby Venture T2 and Grob...
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    rural. In the 20th century the area became largely a residential area. RAF Burtonwood was built on the outskirts in 1939, and the land is now transformed...
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  • 1966) RAF Bruntingthorpe (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Burtonwood SAC/USAFE operational use ended 1966 Transferred to United States Army RAF Chelveston...
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    November 16, 1996) was an American deaf gay activist. Felts was born at RAF Burtonwood in the United Kingdom, the son of SMSgt Walter Earl Felts and Greta...
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    have been affected by the blast. During the 1950s, US Troops from RAF Burtonwood and RAF Sealand used the open spaces in Clubmoor for playing baseball. This...
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