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As a result of a serious shortage of funds during the inter-war period and a weakness of policy, the RAF was singularly ill-equipped to deal with the requirements of air warfare for the protected storage of explosives. In 1936 the RAF had only three ammunition dumps: at Sinderland, Cheshire; Chilmark, Wiltshire; and Pulham St Mary, Norfolk
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11 am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest on UK soil.
Royal Air Force Fauld is a former Royal Air Force underground munitions storage depot located 2 miles (3.2 km) south west of Tutbury, Staffordshire and 10.4 miles (16.7 km) north east of Rugeley, Staffordshire, England. The site was controlled by No. 21 Maintenance Unit RAF which stored munitions underground.
Explosives Storage Unit Air Ammunition Depot Underground munitions storage and RAF Mountain Rescue Team for the Peak District at RAF Harpur Hill 1939–1960. No. 29 MU RAF High Ercall between 1 October 1940 and 1 March 1957. [44] No. 48 SLG No. 46 SLG No. 21 SLG Aircraft Storage Unit No. 30 MU RAF Sealand between 1 August 1939 and 15 March 1951 ...
RAF Harpur Hill is a former Royal Air Force station, situated at Harpur Hill near Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The site was operational from 1938 to 1960 and was mainly used as an underground munitions storage facility. [ 1 ]
The British transferred their 14,000 tons of ordnance containing tabun in October 1945, via Hamburg and Newport, to temporary storage at the RAF strategic reserve ammunition store at Llanberis. Longer term facilities were prepared at RAF Llandwrog where the bombs were to be stored in stacks, out in the open, on the runways of the disused ...
Extensive WW II armaments depot lines using underground Chilmark Quarries and above-ground storage at satellite site at Dinton, Wiltshire. RAF Fauld Depot railway: by 1979 [1] 2 ft (610 mm) Fauld, England: Underground ammunition store during WWII with supply railway. Royal Arsenal Railway [3] [13] [14] 1873 1966 18 in (457 mm) and 1 ft 11 + 1 ...
RAF Bowes Moor was a chemical warfare agent (CWA) storage site run by the Royal Air Force during and after the Second World War. The site was to the north of the village of Bowes in what is now County Durham, England. The Bowes Moor geographical feature runs from the north to the south west of the village.