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Royal Air Force Moreton-in-Marsh or more simply RAF Moreton-in-Marsh is a former Royal Air Force station near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. It was opened in November 1940 with three concrete and tarmac runways and five aircraft hangars. [2] It closed for operational flying in early 1948. The base remained in use as a relief runway and for ...
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Moreton-in-Marsh is a market town in the Evenlode Valley, ... largely by Wellington bombers. 38 men flying to or from RAF Moreton-in-Marsh died during the Second ...
21 OTU was formed in January 1941 at RAF Moreton-in-Marsh to train night bomber crews using the Vickers Wellington. In 1942, it carried out a number of operational sorties. It moved to RAF Finningley in November 1946, before being re-designated No. 202 Advanced Flying School RAF in March 1947. [1] No. 22 Operational Training Unit RAF (22 OTU)
RAF Oakington saw the fifth incarnation of 1 FTS, when it was reformed once again on 1 December 1950 with the North American Harvard T.2B. On 31 October 1951 the school had completely moved to RAF Moreton-in-Marsh and had been given Percival Prentice T.1s, but disbanded again on 20 April 1955. [3]
On 4 June 1966, they decided to do the same for the lower ranks and established the Fire Service Technical College at Moreton-in-Marsh on a disused RAF wartime airfield about 3 km (2 miles) outside the town. In 1981, the Staff College in Dorking closed and amalgamated with the Technical College to form the Fire Service College on the Moreton-in ...
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh; Redesdale Hall; S. Shipston-on-Stour branch This page was last edited on 22 August 2019, at 19:11 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The group was formed on 11 May 1942, at Abingdon as No. 91 (Operational Training) Group RAF in RAF Bomber Command, it was previously No. 6 Group RAF. Within a matter of weeks it was called upon to provide over 200 aircraft and crews for Operation Millenium , the first 1,000 bomber raid, launched against Cologne on the night of 30/31 May 1942.