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6 unusual facts about RAF Coastal Command


1st Antisubmarine Squadron

It deployed to RAF St Eval in England as part of the 1st Antisubmarine Group (Provisional); it trained with RAF Coastal Command on aerial antisubmarine tactics.

Ballykelly, County Londonderry

RAF Station Ballykelly opened in 1941 as an airfield RAF Coastal Command and closed in 1971, because of the British Government's defence cuts.

Charles Cundall

He completed his Admiralty canvases whilst starting work on Bomber Command and Coastal Command subjects.

Ellough

Ellough Airfield was completed in 1943 and served as a RAF Bomber Command and RAF Coastal Command airfield during the Second World War as RAF Beccles.

George E. Kimball

During the war, there was liaison between US and UK analysts in service of RAF Coastal Command.

Warton Aerodrome

In 1940 new runways were built at Warton so that it could act as a "satellite" airfield for the RAF Coastal Command station at Squires Gate airfield in Blackpool.


RAF Andrews Field

In addition to the combat squadrons, the Air Sea Rescue Supermarine Walruses of RAF Coastal Command 276 Squadron were resident from early June 1945.

RAF Crosby-on-Eden

The station was handed over to RAF Coastal Command, hosting 17 OTU during August 1942 for training long-range fighter crews on Bristol Beaufort and Bristol Beaufighter conversion squadrons, as well as air firing and night flying.


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