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Operational Training Units (OTU) and Replacement Training Units (RTU) were training organizations of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.Unlike the schools of the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC), OTU-RTU units were operational units of the four domestic numbered air forces along with I Troop Carrier Command and Air Transport Command, with the mission of final phase ...
On 1 August 1943, No. 14 Operational Training Unit was re-formed at Market Harborough with the transfer of the unit from RAF Cottesmore. The OTU was tasked with the training of crews for RAF Bomber Command in both daylight and night operations. No.14 OTU continued to be housed on the Station until it was disbanded on 24 June 1945.
Second World War. Aircraft flown. Bomber. Vickers Wellington. No. 76 Operational Training Unit RAF (76 OTU) was a Royal Air Force operational training unit during the Second World War. [1] The unit was formed at RAF Aqir on 1 October 1943. Throughout its existence it was equipped with Vickers Wellington bombers - Mk. III and Mk. Xs.
During 1942 10 OTU took control of an anti-submarine flight detached to St Eval and 10 OTU was transferred to No. 91 Group RAF. [1] On June 20, 1943, in the Bay of Biscay, one of a pair of Whitleys operated by 10 OTU from St. Eval was shot down while attacking a submarine believed to be the Barbarigo, of the Italian navy.
No. 1 Torpedo Training Unit RAF (November 1945 – December 1946) [25] Target Towing and Support Aircraft of No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (December 1944 – August 1946) [26] Relief Landing Ground for No. 8 Air Gunners School RAF (January - April 1944) [27] Relief Landing Ground for No. 19 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF ...
No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down, in Gloucestershire, to train fighter pilots, formed initially from No. 5 OTU, flying Hawker Hurricane single seat fighter aircraft, Supermarine Spitfire single seat fighter aircraft and Bristol Blenheim, a twin-engined light bomber. [1]
Royal Air Force Station Lichfield also known as Fradley Aerodrome, was an operational training station from 1940 until 1958. It was situated in Fradley, 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The airfield was the busiest airfield in Staffordshire during World War II. The airfield supported its own units as well as ...
No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was the first unit to be officially based at RAF Haverfordwest. Initially, on the 30 November 1942, four of its Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft, along with ground crew, moved in from RAF Cranwell .