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RAF Darrell's Island during World War II.. The Royal Air Force (RAF) operated from two locations in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda during the Second World War.Bermuda's location had made it an important naval station since US independence, and, with the advent of the aeroplane, had made it as important to trans-Atlantic aviation in the decades before the Jet Age.
The RAF and FAA facilities were closed after the war, which left only the US air bases in Bermuda. The Naval Operating Base ceased to be an air station in 1965, when its flying boats were replaced by Lockheed P-2 Neptunes operating from the Kindley Air Force Base (as the former US Army airfield had become). Those US air bases were in fact only ...
The considerable buildup of the American Bermuda Base Command of artillery and infantry forces and air bases in Bermuda began in April 1941 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. With the US entry into the war in 1942, as well as the decreased danger posed by German surface ships and submarines, the moratorium preventing local units sending ...
The bases consisted of 5.8 km 2 (2.2 sq mi) of land, largely reclaimed from the sea. From 1941 through 1945 the Bermuda Base Command coordinated the US Army's air, anti-aircraft, and coast artillery assets in Bermuda. [2] The US bases were not the only, or even the first, air stations operating in Bermuda, however.
RNAS Bermuda (the personnel of which, as with all members of the America and West Indies Station shore establishment in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda at the time, were part of the strength of the stone frigate HMS Malabar) was a Royal Naval Air Station in the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island until 1939, then Boaz Island (and also the conjoined Watford Island), Bermuda.
In 1951 most of the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda was closed, leaving the South Yard to operate as a supply base, HMS Malabar, until it closed in 1995. The RCN returned to Bermuda, taking over part of the former RN property and creating a winter training installation. More than 30 RCN warships and 5,000 sailors trained in Bermuda during the 1950s.
HMS Standard, WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged, Kielder, Northumberland [36] HMS Stopford, Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness; HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta; HMS Tamar, Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
HMS Sumar (FY1003) was a yacht purchased by the Admiralty of the United Kingdom during the Second World War converted to an armed yacht and equipped for anti-submarine warfare, replacing HMS Castle Harbour (which had been re-assigned to the Mediterranean in 1942) as the Royal Naval Examination Service vessel at Bermuda.