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RAF Kirknewton was also used as a temporary prisoner of war camp for German officers during the War, while they were awaiting transfer to the USA. [3] Also at that time, the area in trees to the west of the airfield (which has now been redeveloped for housing) was used for additional accommodation and was known as Ritchie Camp .
RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars and until its closure in 1965. For a time in the 1950s, part of the site became RAF Cherhill.
RAF Brampton was a non-flying Royal Air Force installation near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England.Formerly the home of RAF Support Command, it also became the home of several elements of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), which itself was a result of a merger between the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) and the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), and provided a base for the Defence ...
The unit was formed at Little Rissington under 23 Group and used Ansons, Oxfords, Harvard and Blackburn Bothas.The unit used multiple airfields such as RAF Windrush, RAF Chipping Norton, RAF Akeman Street and RAF Moreton Valence as relief landing grounds along with RAF Honiley and RAF Chedworth for detachment locations.
Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm mechanics received technical training on a variety of airframes and engines. The first intake of trainees arrived in April 1939, transferred from RAF Halton . In June 1939 Sir Kingsley Wood , Secretary of State for Air , visited the camp, by which time it already had 1,700 trainees. [ 1 ]
Royal Air Force and Army Co-operation School RAF (1918–19) became School of Army Co-operation RAF [66] Royal Air Force and Navy Co-operation School (1919) became Royal Air Force Seaplane Establishment [67] Royal Air Force School of Army Co-operation (1943–44) became School of Air Support RAF [20] Royal Air Force School, India (1921–22) [68]
It was set up at the beginning of the Second World War, as a basic training camp, to train new recruits for the Royal Air Force. Known as a "square bashing camp" in the vernacular, it was the very first base (after kitting out at RAF Cardington) of most personnel there during the 1940s to 1960, although the final passing out parade took place on 20 December 1957. [3]
The training area occupies the larger part of the former RAF Sculthorpe, a military airbase used by RAF bombers in the later stages of the Second World War (1942–45), by United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) units from 1952 to 1962, and thereafter temporary visiting airmen and support crews of both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United ...