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Barkston Heath US Army Air Force Station No 483 |
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Home > RAF Bases Alma Park Updated: 12 Feb 12 |
Opened: April 1941 Closed for runway relaying: Apr 1943 Reopened: Jan 1944 USAAF Airfield: Feb 1944 - Apr 1945 Closed: > Apr 1945 Reopened: 1954? Closed: still an active RAF airfield Airfield code :: YA > BA/BH ICAO Code: MWYE > EGYE Units based here: ?? Sqn :: A Flt, 25 Sqn :: 1 Mar 1983 - 2 July 1989 D Flt, 85 Sqn :: 1 Oct 1989- ?? 5 Group Aircrew Command School 256 MU :: also parented RAF Bottesford from Sep 1945. Ninth AAF 52nd Troop Carrier Wing 61st TCG (14, 15, 53, 59 TCS) equipped with C47s 349th TCG (23, 312, 313, 314 TCS) equipped with C46s RAF Barkston Heath opened in Apr 1941 as a relief landing ground for RAFC Cranwell until April 1943 when the runways were relaid until Jan 1944, to prepare it as a heavy bomber airfield and host an HCU. However this plan did not come to fruition and it served the USAAF from late 1943 instead. USAAF units stationed here helped transport 507 Para Inf, 101 Airborne, to drop zone T, Ste Mere-Eglise in Normandy during Operation Overlord and 81 and 101 Airborne to their drop zones for Operation Market Garden. By the close of the war the airfield was operating C-46 and C-47. In the 1950s Barskton Heath reverted to the role of relief landing ground for RAFC Cranwell but also housed A Flt, 25 Sqn's Bloodhound missiles. RAF Barkston Heath was a Troop Carrier airfield of the 82nd. The 82nd's Lincolnshire airfields were RAF Fulbeck, RAF Folkingham, RAF Barkston Heath and RAF Saltby. |
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local map: The US Air Forces in Lincolnshire "spotters' guide" to RAF Barkston Heath Barkston Heath on UK MILITARY SPOTTING About the Bloodhound system Bloodhound launcher at RAF Sandtoft Bloodhound exhibit at RAF Cosford SK970415 > USAAF Station Numbers 345 - Goxhill Aviation
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