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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 ...
[10] [11] The name was confirmed as Moreton-in-Marsh before 1930. [12] In 1940, a large area of level land east of the town was developed as RAF Moreton-in-Marsh and used as a training airfield, largely by Wellington bombers. 38 men flying to or from RAF Moreton-in-Marsh died during the Second World War.
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 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
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)
RAF Moreton-in-Marsh; Redesdale Hall; S. Shipston-on-Stour branch This page was last edited on 22 August 2019, at 19:11 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The memorial consists of an octagonal flight of five steps, upon which stands a sur-base containing panels and surmounted around the top by the inscription "In grateful memory of the men of Moreton and Batsford who gave their lives in the Great War". On four panels are inscribed the names of the forty-four men who died.
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