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    Air Force Church Lawford or more simply RAF Church Lawford is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.5 mi (2.4 km) south of Church Lawford, Warwickshire...
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    Church Lawford is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. It is located just under 2.5 miles (4 km) west of the town of Rugby and 4.5 miles...
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    Flying Instructors School RAF (FIS) flying Airspeed Oxfords and Avro Tutors using RAF Church Lawford as a main airfield and RAF Warwick and Hockley Heath...
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  • Tutors which taught flying instructors. The main base was RAF Church Lawford but Warwick and RAF Hockley Heath were satellites where aircraft were dispersed...
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    History of 66 MU: Cuckney "RAF Church Lawford". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 31 May 2012. "RAF Wellesbourne Mountford". Air...
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  • 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit was formed on 27 October 1942 at RAF Church Lawford. The unit was previously 2 Central Flying School which was founded...
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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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  • three times, starting first at RAF Church Lawford with plant training at Ryton-on-Dunsmore. It then moved to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, using the sand...
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  • January 1946 and 1947 and No. 20 Service Flying Training School RAF from RAF Church Lawford used Bitteswell as a relief landing ground between July 1946...
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  • 1942. On 23 July 1947, No. 20 FTS at RAF Church Lawford was re-designated No. 2 FTS and on 6 April 1948 it moved to RAF South Cerney in Gloucestershire. It...
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    Flying Unit RAF (18(P)AFU) flew Airspeed Oxfords and Boulton Paul Defiants mostly from RAF Church Lawford but also from other sites including RAF Hockley...
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    flight training in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and RAF Church Lawford, England, was posted as a Sergeant Pilot with RAF Bomber Command. On March 23, 1943, he was...
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    Advanced Flying Unit RAF ((P)AFU) was the first unit to operate from the airfield starting on 7 May 1943 at RAF Church Lawford and using Snitterfield...
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  • Flight RAF (to Blind Approach Calibration Flight) (1941–42) Beam Approach Training Flight RAF, Church Lawford (1942) Beam Approach Training Flight RAF, Nanyuki...
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  • Approach beacon system Units of the Royal Air Force. The first system to guide RAF aircraft safely down onto a runway was called the Standard Blind Approach...
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    from RAF Sudbury. Today, Sudbury retains its status as a market town with a twice-weekly market in the town centre in front of St Peter's Church, which...
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    608 Squadron moved to Wick and in April 1509 (BAT) flight moved to Church Lawford. In March 1942 the Spitfire detachment was replaced by one from 332...
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    Marilyn Monroe, American actress (4 August 1962), over the phone to Peter Lawford, John F. Kennedy's brother-in-law "I'm going to stop now, but I'm going...
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    Richard Burton, Steve Forrest, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Rod Steiger,...
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  • Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, London Robert Nichols — buried in St Mary's Church, Lawford, Essex Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen (author of "Dulce et Decorum...
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    Rhys Williams as Horace Mary Field as Miss Spriggins (uncredited) Peter Lawford as a pilot (uncredited) Charles Bennett as milkman (uncredited) Harry Allen...
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    groups each with a captain in command. Pugsley was given the frigate HMS Lawford as his headquarters ship for assault group J1, responsible for the landing...
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    Klugman Don Knotts Martin Landau Burt Lancaster Angela Lansbury Peter Lawford Cloris Leachman Bruce Lee Christopher Lee Janet Leigh Jack Lemmon Jerry...
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    (moved from Arno's Court Triumphal Arch) and King Edward III (taken from Lawfords' Gate in the city walls when they were demolished about 1760), and 13th-century...
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    with Thompson joining in at the Brighton Speed Trials on 14 September; Church Lawford, near Rugby, on 21 September and Debden, Essex, 22 September 1963. Sydney...
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  • Fullback Signed from North Queensland. Later joined Halifax. 1290 Dean Lawford 1997 Hooker Signed from Sheffield Eagles. Later joined Halifax. 1291 Martin...
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    construction except laying the track, which was done by the specialists, Lawford & Houghton. The line was built using the cheapest materials and winding...
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  • a dangerous trek across land controlled by hostile natives. With Peter Lawford. 53 4 "Kicks" Ron Winston Arnold Perl October 13, 1965 (1965-10-13) Hovue...
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  • Pittsburgh Steelers). Michael E. Krauss, 84, American linguist. Ningali Lawford, 52, Australian actress (Bran Nue Dae, Last Cab to Darwin), asthma attack...
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  • RAeC Record Card #383 RAeC Record Card #384 RAeC Record Card #385 Official RAF history at www.mod.uk RAeC Record Card #387 RAeC Record Card #388 RAeC Record...
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