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Royal Air Force Harwell or more simply RAF Harwell is a former Royal Air Force station, near the village of Harwell, located 4.8 miles (7.7 km) south east of Wantage, Oxfordshire and 17 miles (27 km) north west of Reading, Berkshire, England. The site is now the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which includes the Rutherford Appleton ...
Although Cambridge University had the better nuclear physics facility (the Cavendish Laboratory), the RAF did not want to abandon any of its eastern airfields because of its potential involvement in the Cold War, therefore Harwell was chosen when the RAF made the airfield available. RAF Harwell was sixteen miles south of Oxford near Didcot and ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
Harwell, Nottinghamshire, England, a hamlet; Harwell, Oxfordshire, England, a village RAF Harwell, a World War II RAF airfield, near Harwell village. Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, the current official name of the former RAF Harwell site; Atomic Energy Research Establishment; Harwell Glacier, in Antarctica
Paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division climbing into an RAF Albemarle aircraft at RAF Harwell, 5 June 1944. The invasion of Normandy started just after midnight 6 June 1944. The first units of the division to land were the pathfinders and six platoons from 'D' Company of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry , from Brigadier Hugh ...
H. RAF Halton; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Hamworthy; RAF Hardwick; RAF Harlaxton; RAF Harpur Hill; RAF Harrogate; RAF Harwell; RAF Haverfordwest; RAF Hawkinge; RAF ...
RAF Holmsley South, Hampshire: 30 June 1943: 15 March 1944: RAF Hurn, Dorset: 15 March 1944: 11 October 1944: RAF Harwell, (then) Berkshire: Det. at RAF Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland: 11 October 1944: 21 January 1946: RAF Rivenhall, Essex: 21 January 1946: 1 April 1946: RAF Tarrant Rushton, Dorset: 10 September 1947: 1 October 1948: RAF Fairford ...
No. 570 Squadron RAF – Albemarle I from November 1943 to August 1944 at RAF Hurn and then RAF Harwell. Albemarle II from November 1943 to August 1944 at RAF Hurn and then RAF Harwell. Albemarle V from May 1944 to August 1944 at RAF Harwell. No. 1404 Flight RAF used three aircraft at RAF St Eval from September 1942 to March 1943