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Royal Air Force Moreton-in-Marsh or more simply RAF Moreton-in-Marsh is a former Royal Air Force station near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. It was opened in November 1940 with three concrete and tarmac runways and five aircraft hangars. [2] It closed for operational flying in early 1948. The base remained in use as a relief runway and for ...
The Midland Hotel requisitioned as an RAF Hospital RAF Moreton-in-Marsh: MO England Gloucestershire: 1941 1955 Now the site of the Fire Service College: RAF Moreton Valence: England Gloucestershire: 1939 1962 The runway is now buried under the M5 motorway. The station was adjacent to 7MU Quedgeley. RAF Morpeth: England Northumberland: 1942 1948
Moreton is derived from Old English which means "Farmstead on the Moor" and "in Marsh" is from henne and mersh meaning a marsh used by birds such as moorhens. [3] An alternative suggestion is that 'Marsh' is a corruption of 'March', early English for boundary.
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21 OTU was formed in January 1941 at RAF Moreton-in-Marsh to train night bomber crews using the Vickers Wellington. In 1942, it carried out a number of operational sorties. It moved to RAF Finningley in November 1946, before being re-designated No. 202 Advanced Flying School RAF in March 1947. [1] No. 22 Operational Training Unit RAF (22 OTU)
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On 4 June 1966, they decided to do the same for the lower ranks and established the Fire Service Technical College at Moreton-in-Marsh on a disused RAF wartime airfield about 3 km (2 miles) outside the town. In 1981, the Staff College in Dorking closed and amalgamated with the Technical College to form the Fire Service College on the Moreton-in ...
The aerodrome opened 15 September 1942 as RAF Enstone. [5] It started life as a satellite airfield for RAF Moreton-in-Marsh , and was used by Vickers Wellingtons of No. 21 Operational Training Unit RAF until April 1944.