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  2. RAF Kimbolton - Wikipedia

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    The next USAAF unit to use Kimbolton was the 17th Bombardment Group (Medium), arriving in October from Barksdale AAF Louisiana. The 17th was originally intended to use RAF Bassingbourn. However, with the move of the 91st, the unit utilised Kimbolton as its shorter runways could accommodate their smaller, twin-engined medium bombers.

  3. 379th Air Expeditionary Wing - Wikipedia

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    Assigned to RAF Kimbolton in early 1943, the group flew more sorties than any other bomb group in the Eighth Air Force, and dropped a greater bomb tonnage than any other group. The combat record of the 379th was the most successful of all the Eighth Air Force heavy bomber groups, receiving two Distinguished Unit Citations .

  4. Category : Royal Air Force stations in Huntingdonshire

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... RAF Kimbolton; L. RAF Little Staughton; M.

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  6. 527th Bombardment Squadron - Wikipedia

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    Squadron B-17 crash landed after a combat mission [b]. The air echelon of the squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 20 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be its combat station for the remainder of its time in the European Theater of Operations.

  7. Stow Longa - Wikipedia

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    RAF Kimbolton was opened as a bomber airfield on the southern edge of the village in 1941, and was operated by the USAAF from 1942 to 1945. According to a locally published collection of short stories, 'Ploughing Songs' by Damian Croft, [ 2 ] the reason why the public houses that were in Stow Longa were closed down in the 1950s was because ...

  8. List of Royal Air Force operations - Wikipedia

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    Operation Newcombe was the code name for two separate and concurrent RAF non-combat military operations in Mali. One operation involved logistical and airlift support for the French-led Operation Barkhane (previously Operation Serval ), whilst the other encompassed peacekeeping in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated ...

  9. Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress - Wikipedia

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    Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress, 42-5736 ("Tampa Tornado") on display at RAF Kimbolton, England, 2 October 1943 when it was shown to those attending a party for local children. Altogether of the 59 aircraft dispatched, 48 sorties were credited. Five confirmed and two probable German fighter kills were claimed, and one YB-40 was lost, shot down on ...